The increasing number of people leading more mobile lives, with spatially dispersed
families, raises questions over how they maintain their family life and friendships and how …

Leading migration researcher Louise Ryan's topical and intersectional book provides rich
insights into migrants' social networks. It draws on more than 200 interviews with migrants …

Recent studies on place--mobility relationships suggest an increasing possibility that people
can have multiple place attachments at varied spatial scales. Yet, our understanding of how …

I explore filial duty in the holidays from a feminist perspective through the lens of the
experiences that Norwegian midlife single women have of how this duty shapes …

This article develops sociological knowledge on daughterhood through an analysis of how
separation shapes the emotional and moral dynamics of transnational daughterhood …

This paper contributes to 'visiting friends and relatives'(VFR) discussions within migration
and diaspora literatures by proposing a closer theorization of religious mobilities through the …

It is known that opportunities to cross borders legally, acquired through regularization
programs, are acknowledged by previously illegalized migrants as one of the main positive …

This article engages with the understudied phenomenon of the 'disinterested,
denouncing'diaspora state (Levitt, P., and NG Schiller. 2004.“Conceptualizing Simultaneity …

Tourism research on visiting friends and relatives remains normative and family-centric. The
literature has yet to question the normative underpinnings of relationships and remains …

Drawing on data from ethnographic research among Polish migrants in Iceland, this article
analysis their occasional trips undertaken in order to meet with families and relatives in the …