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Author Simpson, Patricia Anne, 1958- author.

Title Reimagining the European family : cultures of immigration / Patricia Anne Simpson
Published [Basingstoke] : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013

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Description 1 online resource
Series Studies in European culture and history
Studies in European culture and history.
Contents Introduction: Re-imagining the European Family: Cultures of Immigration -- 1. Defining the 'German' Family in the European Context: Men at Work -- 2. Elective Affinities: Motherhood and Families Without Borders -- 3. Russian German Immigration and Imagined Families -- 4. Japanese German Kinships: Imagining Postwar Masculinity -- 5. Immigration Nations: Comedy and The New Family -- Conclusion: Post-Familial Europe?
Summary The family remains a fundamental social, emotional, and economic unit, but it is undergoing change, especially in the European Union. Reimagining the Family explores contemporary films and literature about the effects of legal and illegal immigration on the structure and the stories of the contemporary "European"; family, with a focus on Germany. Multiple models, from nuclear to extended, local to transnational, encounter each other in statistics and in fictions. Narratives about work, love, generational difference, and conflicts among them alternately resist and embrace the influences of migration and immigration. Defining cosmopolitan identities in new and more inclusive ways, these stories of transnational families go beyond the demographic studies to expand the range of possibilities for understanding work, parenting, and citizenship in contemporary Europe
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Subject Families -- Germany
Families -- Economic aspects -- Germany
Families in motion pictures.
Families in literature.
Sociology: family & relationships.
Cultural studies.
Migration, immigration & emigration.
Ethnic studies.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
Society.
Families
Families -- Economic aspects
Families in literature
Families in motion pictures
Family & relationships: advice & issues -- Europe.
Ethnic studies -- Europe.
Migration, immigration & emigration -- Europe.
Cultural studies -- Europe.
Sociology: family & relationships -- Europe.
Society.
Germany
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781137371843
1137371846