The Family in Question

Front matter

The Family in Question

Immigrant and Ethnic Minorities in Multicultural Europe

RALPH GRILLO (ED.)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Preface

I The Family in Dispute: Insiders and Outsiders Ralph Grillo

2 Inside and Outside: Contrasting Perspectives on the Dynamics of Kinship and Marriage in Contemporary South Asian Transnational Networks Roger Ballard

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Italian Families in Switzerland: Sites of Belonging or

‘Golden Cages’? Perceptions and Discourses inside

and outside the Migrant Family

Dealing with ‘That Thing’: Female Circumcision and Sierra Leonean Refugee Girls in the UK Radha Rajkotia 225

Socio-Cultural Dynamics in Intermarriage in Spain: Beyond Simplistic Notions of Hybridity Dan Rodriguez-Garcia 245

Debating Culture across Distance: Transnational Families and the Obligation to Care Loretta Baldassar 269

Acknowledgments

The chapters included in this collection were selected from papers presented to a workshop on ‘Debating Cultural Difference: The Family’, held at the University of Sussex in April 2006, funded by a generous grant from IMISCOE Cluster BG. Dr. Ruba Salih (University of Exeter) and Professor Steven Vertovec (Director, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Gottingen) chaired the sessions. The workshop was followed by an IMISCOE-funded training session for doctoral students. During the workshop, the trainees acted as discussants and, in some cases, presented papers. I would like to thank the following for their contributions: Anna Arnone, Kristine Krause, Paulien Muller, Marianne Pedersen, Radha Rajkotia, Roberta Ricucci, Marta Rosales, Anna Stepien, Femke Stock and Susanne Wessendorf.