Families, family norms and policies : insights from the social sciences
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- Milena Belloni (UGent) and Laura Cleton
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- This chapter aims to guide non-social scientists across the most relevant theoretical discussions that have shaped the debate on family reunification in the social sciences. After providing a brief genealogy of the study of family reunification in the fields of sociology, anthropology and political sciences, the chapter reviews three key debates. Firstly, it discusses how social scientists have questioned the supposed ‘neutrality’ of legal frameworks and shows how gendered, racialised and classed discourses that reflect the imagined boundaries of the nation state end up in family reunification laws and policies. Second, it discusses the relevance of the longstanding debate on the interplay between structure and agency to understand how subjects ‘do family’ in spite of policy obstacles and how discretion and moral evaluation play out in the implementation of family reunification policies. Finally, the chapter surveys the role of transnational dynamics in family reunification and explores the potential to further apply a transnational lens to grasp different dimensions of this socio-legal process.
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-01J8HF5Z4HMZQ19E2W2S5ZZ6V9
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- Belloni, Milena, and Laura Cleton. “Families, Family Norms and Policies : Insights from the Social Sciences.” Family Reunification in Europe : Exposing Inequalities, edited by Ellen Desmet et al., Routledge, 2024, pp. 62–78, doi:10.4324/9781003503217-5.
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- Belloni, M., & Cleton, L. (2024). Families, family norms and policies : insights from the social sciences. In E. Desmet, M. Belloni, J. Verhellen, D. Vanheule, & A. Güdük (Eds.), Family reunification in Europe : exposing inequalities (pp. 62–78). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003503217-5
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- Belloni, Milena, and Laura Cleton. 2024. “Families, Family Norms and Policies : Insights from the Social Sciences.” In Family Reunification in Europe : Exposing Inequalities, edited by Ellen Desmet, Milena Belloni, Jinske Verhellen, Dirk Vanheule, and Ayse Güdük, 62–78. London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003503217-5.
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- Belloni, Milena, and Laura Cleton. 2024. “Families, Family Norms and Policies : Insights from the Social Sciences.” In Family Reunification in Europe : Exposing Inequalities, ed by. Ellen Desmet, Milena Belloni, Jinske Verhellen, Dirk Vanheule, and Ayse Güdük, 62–78. London: Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781003503217-5.
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- 1.Belloni M, Cleton L. Families, family norms and policies : insights from the social sciences. In: Desmet E, Belloni M, Verhellen J, Vanheule D, Güdük A, editors. Family reunification in Europe : exposing inequalities. London: Routledge; 2024. p. 62–78.
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- [1]M. Belloni and L. Cleton, “Families, family norms and policies : insights from the social sciences,” in Family reunification in Europe : exposing inequalities, E. Desmet, M. Belloni, J. Verhellen, D. Vanheule, and A. Güdük, Eds. London: Routledge, 2024, pp. 62–78.
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booktitle = {{Family reunification in Europe : exposing inequalities}},
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