An informative and compelling guide for families to enrich their home life in our age of distraction. Like millions of parents, bestselling author and New York Times family columnist Bruce Feiler felt squeezed between the needs of aging parents and rapidly growing children. Over…
Family-related migration is moving to the centre of political debates on migration, integration and multiculturalism in Europe. It is also more and more leading to lively academic interest in the family dimensions of international migration. At the same time, strands of research…
"Family-related migration is moving to the centre of political debates on migration, integration and multiculturalism in Europe. It is also more and more leading to lively academic interest in the family dimensions of international migration. At the same time, strands of researc…
"Au pairs have traditionally been thought of as middle-class young women from Northern Europe, who are having a fun gap year in a foreign country. This collection, the first dedicated to examining the lives of au pairs, reveals that this is far from the whole story. Au pairing i…
What was life like for the British men, women, and children who lived in late imperial India while serving the Raj? Empire Families examines this British overseas community by looking at a series of families, their lives in India, and their travels back to Britain. Focusing for …
"Introduction : making 'British-Indians' : children, family traditions of Indian service, and cycles of migration"--BOOK JACKET. "Conclusion : plain tales and family romances : remembering the Raj in post-Colonial Britain" "In this first study of family life in British India, El…
"As state control of private life in China has loosened since 1980, citizens have experienced an unprecedented family revolution ... an overhaul of family structure, marital practices, and gender relationships. While the nuclear family has become a privileged realm of romance an…
