Lives in Motion

This book focuses on global mobility and the worldwide articulation of family life, understood as dimensions of social change that come off from the private sphere of individuals and reverberate to the point of transforming the composition of national populations. Delving into the interrelation of migration and life courses, the volume investigates how individual mobility paths are intertwined with family matters and the way population movements are embedded in a myriad of intimate and household affairs. The inquiry is based on qualitative data and specifically focused on the migratory flow between Morocco and Italy through an exploration that encompasses a range of interrelated issues such as: transnational marriages, intimacy, love, daily domestic life, the formation of second generations and citizenship. Providing an exhaustive analysis of such phenomena, the book portrays cultural diversity in a nuanced manner and, in so doing, contributes to de-politicize widely stigmatized traits of migrant families.

1. Introduction: Migration, Reproduction and the Place of Families. - 2. Family Matter(s): Marriages, Kinship, and Female Mobility. - 3. Children of Migration: The Transnational Making of Population. - 4. Copious Relationships: Intimacy and Belonging in Perilous Times. - 5. Migration, Reproduction, and the Demography of Citizenship. - 6. Conclusion: Lives in Motion and Their Future.