Family and Kinship
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Migration and New Media
Transnational Families and Polymedia
How do parents and children care for each other when they are separated because of migration? The way in which transnational families maintain long-distance relationships has been revolutionised by the emergence of new media such as email, instant messaging, social networking sites, webcam and...
Published November 16th 2011 by Routledge
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Cross-Cultural Approaches to Adoption
Series: European Association of Social Anthropologists
Adoption is currently subject to a great deal of media scrutiny. High-profile cases of international adoption via the internet and other unofficial routes, have drawn attention to the relative ease with which children can be obtained on the global circuit, and have brought about legislation which...
Published October 6th 2004 by Routledge
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Children's Places
Cross-Cultural Perspectives
Children's Places examines the ways in which children and adults, from their different vantage-points in society, negotiate the 'proper place' of children in both social and spatial terms. It looks at some of the recognised constructions of children, including perspectives from cultures that do not...
Published October 15th 2003 by Routledge