Globalization And Families

Author : Bahira Trask
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 0387882855
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Globalization and Families written by Bahira Trask and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-12-01 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As our world becomes increasingly interconnected through economic integration, technology, communication, and political transformation, the sphere of the family is a fundamental arena where globalizing processes become realized. For most individuals, family in whatever configuration, still remains the primary arrangement that meets certain social, emotional, and economic needs. It is within families that decisions about work, care, movement, and identity are negotiated, contested, and resolved. Globalization has profound implications for how families assess the choices and challenges that accompany this process. Families are integrated into the global economy through formal and informal work, through production and consumption, and through their relationship with nation-states. Moreover, ever growing communication and information technologies allow families and individuals to have access to others in an unprecedented manner. These relationships are accompanied by new conceptualizations of appropriate lifestyles, identities, and ideologies even among those who may never be able to access them. Despite a general acknowledgement of the complexities and social significance inherent in globalization, most analyses remain top-down, focused on the global economy, corporate strategies, and political streams. This limited perspective on globalization has had profound implications for understanding social life. The impact of globalization on gender ideologies, work-family relationships, conceptualizations of children, youth, and the elderly have been virtually absent in mainstream approaches, creating false impressions that dichotomize globalization as a separate process from the social order. Moreover, most approaches to globalization and social phenomena emphasize the Western experience. These inaccurate assumptions have profound implications for families, and for the globalization process itself. In order to create and implement programs and policies that can harness globalization for the good of mankind, and that could reverse some of the deleterious effects that have affected the world’s most vulnerable populations, we need to make the interplay between globalization and families a primary focus.

Author : Angela Abela
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118321030
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Issues in Family Studies written by Angela Abela and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-10-02 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume tackles key issues in the changing nature of family life from a global perspective, and is essential reading for those studying and working with families. Covers changes in couple relationships and the challenges these pose; parenting practices and their implications for child development; key contemporary global issues, such as migration, poverty, and the internet, and their impact on the family; and the role of the state in supporting family relationships Includes a stellar cast of international contributors such as Paul Amato and John Coleman, and contributions from leading experts based in North Africa, Japan, Australia and New Zealand Discusses topics such as cohabitation, divorce, single-parent households, same-sex partnerships, fertility, and domestic violence Links research and practice and provides policy recommendations at the end of each chapter

Author : Daphna Hacker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781316508213
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Legalized Families in the Era of Bordered Globalization written by Daphna Hacker and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing a panoramic and interdisciplinary perspective, this book explores the interrelations between globalization, borders, families and the law. It considers the role of international, multi-national and religious laws in shaping the lives of the millions of families that are affected by the opportunities and challenges created by globalization, and the ongoing resilience of national borders and cultural boundaries. Examining familial life-span stages - establishing spousal relations, raising children and being cared for in old age - Hacker demonstrates the fruitfulness in studying families beyond the borders of national family law, and highlights the relevance of immigration and citizenship law, public and private international law and other branches of law. This book provides a rich empirical description of families in our era. It is relevant not only to legal scholars and practitioners but also to scholars and students within the sociology of the family, globalization studies, border studies, immigration studies and gender studies.

Author : Natalie Hevener Kaufman
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 0306473682
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Globalization and Children written by Natalie Hevener Kaufman and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2002-11-30 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The primary aim of Globalization and Children is to present an interdisciplinary analysis of a diverse set of global changes and their effects on the everyday lives of children. Contributors offer guidelines which will enable researchers, policy makers, and other child advocates to increase their understanding of how global change is affecting children and which interventions would be useful in understanding and developing policies that would advance the well-being of children. The book explores and explains how children have been excluded from our conceptualization of the world and our research about globalization. The contributors represent a variety of perspectives from different disciplines including anthropology, sociology, psychology, politics, international relations, law, and economics. Globalization and Children will be an indispensable resource for practitioners and policy makers who are concerned with children and child-related issues, psychologists, sociologists, social workers, and upper-level students in anthropology, sociology, psychology, and education.

Author : Jennifer Cole
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253218705
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Generations and Globalization written by Jennifer Cole and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A glimpse into how globalization shapes and is shaped by family life around the world

Author : Ricardo Quintana-Vallejo
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 100029529X
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Children of Globalization written by Ricardo Quintana-Vallejo and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-10 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Children of Globalization is the first book-length exploration of contemporary Diasporic Coming-of-age Novels in the context of globalized and de facto multicultural societies. Diasporic Coming-of-age Novels subvert the horizon of expectations of the originating and archetypal form of the genre, the traditional Bildungsroman, which encompasses the works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Charles Dickens, and Jane Austen, and illustrates middle-class, European, "enlightened," and overwhelmingly male protagonists who become accommodated citizens, workers, and spouses whom the readers should imitate. Conversely, Diasporic Coming-of-age Novels have manifold ways of defining youth and adulthood. The culturally-hybrid protagonists, often experiencing intersectional oppression due to their identities of race, gender, class, or sexuality, must negotiate what it means to become adults in their own families and social contexts, at times being undocumented or otherwise unable to access full citizenship, thus enabling complex and variegated formative processes that beg the questions of nationhood and belonging in increasingly globalized societies worldwide.

Author : Hoda Mahmoudi
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429537220
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Children and Globalization written by Hoda Mahmoudi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-04-08 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Globalization has carried vast consequences for the lives of children. It has spurred unprecedented waves of immigration, contributed to far-reaching transformations in the organization, structure, and dynamics of family life, and profoundly altered trajectories of growing up. Equally important, globalization has contributed to the world-wide dissemination of a set of international norms about children’s welfare and heightened public awareness of disparities in the lives of children around the world. This book's contributors – leading historians, literary scholars, psychologists, social geographers, and others – provide fresh perspectives on the transformations that globalization has produced in children's lives.

Author : Nuria Chinchilla
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527502821
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Work-Family Balance in Light of Globalization and Technology written by Nuria Chinchilla and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2017-08-21 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Technology is changing the way we integrate work and family life today. In an age in which information technology has brought the promise of autonomy and control by allowing asynchronous communications; in which work systems have enabled people to work from various times and in various locations; and in which work and non-work boundaries have as a result been blurred, the work and family interface needs to be reconsidered. This collection is the result of a careful selection of articles presented at the Sixth International Conference for Work and Family organized by the International Center for Work and Family at IESE Business School, Spain. It has a clear focus on technology, managers, globalization, and gender, and contributions analyse the state of affairs in Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Europe, and North America. The chapters here offer innovative approaches to how technology, globalization, managers and gender issues are affecting the dynamics of work and family balance around the world. As such, the book will help practitioners and academics to make better decisions, to stay up to date on current developments, and to think critically about these fascinating and complex topics.

Author : Meg Wilkes Karraker
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1412998638
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Global Families written by Meg Wilkes Karraker and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2012-05-08 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Global Families, author Meg Karraker provides family scholars with a methodical introduction to the interdisciplinary field of globalization. Global Families then examines the ways in which globalization impinges on families throughout the world in four major areas: demographic transitions, world-wide culture, international violence, and transnational employment. The book concludes with a discussion of supra-national policies and other efforts to position families in this global landscape.

Author : Elaine Leeder
Publisher : Cognella Academic Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781516531370
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Family in Global Perspective (Second Edition) written by Elaine Leeder and published by Cognella Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2019-08-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second edition of The Family in Global Perspective: A Gendered Journey explores the differences and similarities in family structures around the globe. Students learn how factors such as location, culture, and globalization influence how families function and also shape the unique experiences of family members. The lens is that of a gendered journey through which we see how families operate as a result of global forces. The book begins with a chapter featuring vignettes from the author's worldwide travels, emphasizing her observations regarding family life. Proceeding chapters examine the purposes and goals of family life, the history of the family in the West, Africa, Asia, and Latin America, and how capitalism and power differentials impact family life. Students are provided with a theoretical understanding on families and information on how gender relations, race, ethnicity, class, and other structural conditions affect the family. The text addresses love, marriage, the end of relationships, intergenerational relations, refugees, immigrants, families of prisoners, violence, and domestic violence globally. The final chapter explores the impact of globalization and the future of the family, particularly as it relates to the impact of technology, religion, and social policies on family life The Family in Global Perspective effectively demonstrates how families around the world are impacted by social, economic, and political change. It is ideal for courses in family studies, sociology, global studies, cultural studies, social work, and counseling. For a look at the specific features and benefits of The Family in Global Perspective, visit cognella.com/the-family-in-global-perspective-features-and-benefits.