This open access book examines the impacts and experiences of family separation on forced migrants and their transnational families. On the one hand, it investigates how people with a forced migration background in Europe, the Middle East, and Latin America experience separation from their families, and on the other, how family and kin in the countries of origin or transit are impacted by the often precarious circumstances of their family members in receiving countries. In particular, this book provides new knowledge on the nexus between transnational family separation, forced migration, and everyday (in)security. Additionally, it yields comparative information for assessing the impacts of relevant legislation and administrative practice in a number of national contexts. Based on rich empirical data, including unique cases about South-South migration, the findings in this book are highly relevant to academics in migration and refugee studies as well as policy-makers, legislators and practitioners.

This book is available open access Describes forced migrants' transnational family lives Discusses emotions and well-being in relation to migration This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access

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Marja Tiilikainen received her PhD in study of religions from the University of Helsinki, Finland, in 2003, and the title of associate professor (docent) in the same subject in 2011. She is a senior research fellow at the Migration Institute of Finland. Her research has focused on such issues as Muslim minorities; everyday lived religion; the cultural dimensions of health, illness, and healing; everyday security; and transnational family life. She recently led the research project 'Family Separation, Migration Status, and Everyday Security: Experiences and Strategies of Vulnerable Migrants', funded by the Academy of Finland (2018 2022). Johanna Hiitola (PhD, associate professor) is the director of gender studies at the University of Oulu, Finland. Her research includes intersectional feminist family studies, migrant integration, interpersonal violence, forced migration studies, citizenship scholarship, family separation of forced migrants and, most recently, DNA testing for genetic ancestry. She has recently conducted research as part of the Academy of Finland-funded project 'Family Separation, Migration Status, and Everyday Security' (2018 2022).

Abdirashid A. Ismail holds a DSc in economics (2010) from Hanken School of Economics in Helsinki, Finland. He has recently been a senior researcher and research fellow at the Migration Institute of Finland and was part of the Academy of Finland-funded research project 'Family Separation, Migration Status, and Everyday Security'. He is also an economics policy fellow with the Heritage Institute for Policy Studies in Mogadishu, Somalia. His research interests span two broad fields: immigration and diaspora studies and political economy of conflict and state formation.

Jaana Palander has a master's degree in administrative sciences (2008) and is currently completing her doctoral studies in public law at the University of Tampere, Finland. Her doctoral thesis deals with human rights and family reunification. Currently, she teaches migration law and human rights law at the University of Eastern Finland Law School. Recently, she has been a researcher at the Migration Institute of Finland in the project 'Family Separation, Migration Status, and Everyday Security', funded by the Academy of Finland.

Inhalt

Part 1: Introduction.- Chapter 1. From Forced Migration to the Forced Separation of Families.- Chapter 2. International Human Rights Frameworks in Relation to National Family Reunification Policy and Administrative Practice.- Part II: Everyday Insecurities Faced by Transnationally Separated Families.- Chapter 3. Recognizing Insecurities of Family Members Abroad: Human Rights Balancing in European and Finnish Case Law.- Chapter 4. 'There is no family here': Refugees' Strategies for Family Reunification in São Paulo.- Chapter 5. 'She Died While Missing Us': Experiences of Family Separation Among African Refugees in Israel.- Chapter 6. For the Greater Good: The Economic and Social Impacts of Irregular Migration on Families in Benin City, Nigeria.- Chapter 7. 'Mum, I Sleep Under a Bridge': Everyday Insecurities of the Families of Rejected Asylum Seekers in Somalia.- Part III: Affective Responses and Waiting for Family Reunification.- Chapter 8. Mapping Conditions of (In)security for 'Dreamer Parents' at the Mexico-US Border.- Chapter 9. Gendered Family Dynamics, Waiting and Mobilities Across Borders: Syrian Refugees Navigating Displacement in Jordan.- Chapter 10. 'Doing Family' as a Separated Household: The Experience of Syrian Refugees in Germany and Lebanon.- Chapter 11. Navigating Affective (In)securities: Forced Migration and Transnational Family Relationships.- Chapter 12. Forced Migration and Evolving Responses to Queer Identity in the Muslim Family.