Family‐related migration: a critial review of European Studies
Family‐related migration: a critial review of European Studies
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与家庭相关的移民：欧洲研究的批判性回顾
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2004
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E. Kofman
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E. Kofman
尽管家庭移民研究是过去二十年欧盟国家合法入境的主要模式，但它在理论、方法论和经验上都被边缘化。在定居者社会中，家庭移民的解释更为宽松并受到鼓励。家庭成员的定义由国家决定，并且在欧盟国家中通常以高度限制性的术语进行解释。由于移民研究强调个人、高度关注经济以及基于男性生产者和女性生育者的二分法与女性移民的关联，与家庭相关的移民一直被忽视。从政策角度来看，它被视为从属于并脱离劳动力市场的次要移民形式。然而，自 20 世纪 80 年代末以来，与家庭相关的移民已成为学术研究的主题，尤其是北美和亚太地区，利用网络分析以及最近的跨国主义概念。在本文中，我首先探讨了欧洲研究相对忽视家庭相关移民的原因，欧洲研究主要关注移民家庭融入接收社会以及家庭团聚的法律和政策条件。其次，我研究了改变家庭主导的移民的一些影响，特别是在生命历程的关键时刻和阶段，以及对这种形式的移民施加的越来越多的限制，强调了民族国家的持续作用。
Despite being the dominant mode of legal entry for the past two decades in European Union states, the study of family migration has been marginalised theoretically, methodologically and empirically. In settler societies, family migration has been interpreted more loosely and has been encouraged. The definition of who constitutes the family is determined by the state and is generally interpreted in highly restrictive terms in EU states. Family‐related migration has been neglected because of the emphasis in migration studies on the individual, a heavily economic focus, and an association with female migration based on the dichotomy of male producer and female reproducer. In policy terms it is treated as a secondary form of migration subordinate to and divorced from labour markets. However since the late 1980s family‐related migrations have become the subject of scholarly research, especially North American and Asian‐Pacific, using network analysis and, more recently, concepts of transnationalism. In this paper I firstly explore the reasons for the relative neglect of family‐linked migration in European research which has focused on the integration of migrant families in receiving societies and the legal and policy conditions of family reunification. Secondly, I examine some of the implications of changing family‐led migration, especially at key moments and stages of the lifecourse, and the increasing restrictions imposed on this form of migration, highlighting the continuing role of the nation‐state.