For families with limited opportunities for face-to-face interaction, social media can be a vital
communication medium to help shape the family identity, maintain bonds, and accomplish …

Developing on Granovetter's classic work on embeddedness in systems of social relations,
this paper proposes the concept of 'differentiated embedding'to explore how migrants …

Focusing on migrant social networks, this paper draws upon the sociology of time to
incorporate complex notions of temporality into the research process. In so doing, we …

This paper's objective is to offer a range of appropriate theoretical formulations to better
understand the unfolding dynamics and characteristics of new European youth migrations …

In this article I explore how transnational families, living in Ireland, use Skype to stay in touch
with their loved ones. From 2010 to 2012, data were collected from a purposive, but broad …

Shanthi Robertson provides fresh perspectives on 21st-century migratory experiences in this
innovative study of young Asian migrants' lives in Australia. Exploring the aspirations and …

In this paper we argue that the current political context of restrictionist migration policies is
dramatically affecting people's capacity to cross borders to engage in proximate care with …

This article explores how level of education and region of origin (EU versus non-EU) shape
newcomers' perceptions of being welcome and treated fairly upon arrival, as well as their …

The paper, drawing on narrative analysis of qualitative research with Irish highly qualified
migrants in Britain, examines the processes of friendship-making in contexts of mobility. In …

The COVID‐19 pandemic dramatically disrupted and reconfigured the cross‐border
movements of people. Based on an anthropological study of the experiences of …