Handbook of Transnational Families Around the World

INTRODUCTION: Entangled Logics in Transnational Families (Javiera Cienfuegos and Rosa Brandhorst).- PART I: The Importance (and Continuity) of Gender Inequalities.- Families, Female Heads of Household and Feminization of Migration in Central America (Ana Lucía Fernández Fernández).- Adult-Son and Father Relationships Across the Life Course: Reflections on the Korean American Package Deal (Allen Kim).- Raising a Family in the Distance: Family Practices in Contexts of Colombian Migration to Santiago De Chile (Adriana Zapata).- Power Asymmetry in Shared Mothering Arrangements: Filipino Migrant Mothers in France and their Co-Mothers in the Philippines (Asuncion Fresnoza-Flot).- International Marriage, Migration and Transnational Family Life: The Case of Japanese-Filipino Families (Jocelyn O. Celero).- PART II: New (Other) Actors on the Global Scale.- Cultural Identity and Cosmopolitan Attitudes in Zero -Second Generation Transnational Relationships via Materialities (ViorelaDucu & Áron Telegdi Csetri).- Facing Global Processes: Highly Qualified Migrants and their Struggles for Recognition (Javiera Cienfuegos).- Analyzing the Far-Reaching Impacts of the Out-Migration of Female Labor: Barrel Children, Migrant Jamaican Teachers and Dependent Families (Karen Thomas-Brown).- Moral Economies and Transnational Families of Central American Migrants in Mexico and the US (Kristin E. Yarris & Charles Watters).- 'Familia En El Extranjero': Transnational Families and the Reconfiguration of Social Inequalities in Cuba (Rosa Brandhorst).- Transnational Families: Brazilian Immigration to the United States, Education and Belonging (Gabrielle Oliveira & Mariana Lima Becker).- Older People and Transnational Family Configurations (Claudio Bolzman).- PART III: Reunification and its Possibilities: Deported and Returned.- Transnational Families and the Impact of Reintegration: Returned Bolivian Women from Spain in between of Social Suffering and Resilience (Sònia

Dr. Javiera Cienfuegos is Associate Professor at Universidad Academia de Humanismo Cristiano (Chile) and obtained her PhD. in Sociology at Freie Universität Berlin. Her main research areas include family diversity, transnational migration, and social emotions, which converge on the phenomenon of transnational families, an issue which has worked intensively since 2007. Her dissertation was awarded the triannual prize Friedrich Katz of the Latin American Institute of the Free University of Berlin. This work has been published as a book by RIL Publishing House.

Between 2019 and 2021, Dr Cienfuegos was a visiting scholar at the Latin American Institute in the Freie Universitát Berlin, conducting post-doctoral research on family processes and labour trajectories of high-skilled migrants, including the countries of Germany and Chile. Her work is available in three different languages as book chapters and double-blind peer-reviewed articles. Recently, Dr Cienfuegos has been editor and co-editor of two books, Special Issues. 

Javiera Cienfuegos lectured sociology of migration and emotions, and qualitative and mixed methods of social research at Universidad Alberto Hurtado and Universidad Academia de Humanismo Cristiano. Furthermore, Dr Cienfuegos promotes family diversity through an academic and community visual project called "Familia Glocal" the main objective is to render visible, rescuing quotidian experiences and issues the variety of forms of "doing family".



Rosa Brandhorst is a Senior Lecturer at the Centre on Migration, Citizenship and Development (COMCAD) at the Faculty of Sociology of the University of Bielefeld. From 2017 to 2019, she was a postdoctoral researcher at the Discipline Group of Anthropology and Sociology at the University of Western Australia. Brandhorst's main research areas include sociology of family, migration and social transformation, with a