Elisabetta Zontini
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 79576 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Elisabetta Zontini |
| NOMBRES | Elisabetta |
| APELLIDO | Zontini |
| FIRMA | ZONTINI E |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Nottingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6011-788X |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 21 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 281 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 21 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2000 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 10 |
Researching the researcher
Reflexivity has been central to recent debates in migration studies, focusing on how migration scholarship can become more equitable, inclusive, and attuned to the power dynamics inherent in research processes. In this article, we advance these debates by demonstrating the role of emotions as crucial tools for knowledge production. Drawing on feminist qualitative research, we introduce our emotionally-sensed approach to account for the role of em…
Transnational Families, Migration and Gender
By linking the experiences of immigrant families with the increased reliance on cheap and flexible workers for care and domestic work in Southern Europe, this study documents the lived experiences of neglected actors of globalization - migrant women - as well as the transformations of Western families more generally. However, while describing in detail the structural and cultural contexts within which these women have to operate, the book questio…
Studying the Emotional Costs of Integration at Times of Change
Events such as Brexit have drawn attention to the precarity of contemporary migrants' settlement rights and reopened the debate on the nature of integration and assimilation processes. Drawing on participant observation and interviews with Italian and Bulgarian migrants in Brexit Britain, this article develops a novel approach for understanding migrants' changing relationships with their countries of settlement and their current and future practi…
EU Children in Brexit Britain
This article contributes to debates on identification, home and belonging by focusing on EU children in Brexit times. 1 The article combines attention to the emotional and affective side of integration with a focus on the effects of the discursive practices of the state on these processes. The article explores how Italian children and their parents navigate the increasingly neo‐assimilationist pressures in Britain. Specifically, it looks at child…
Mapping the role of 'transnational family habitus' in the lives of young people and children
In this article, we develop the concept of 'transnational family habitus' as a theoretical tool for making sense of the ways in which children and young people from a migrant background are 'doing families' transnationally. Drawing on over a decade of cumulative research on Caribbean and Italian families in the UK, as well as on a new joint research project, we first investigate the opportunities and consequences of a transnational family habitus…
Transnational and diasporic youth identities
This special issue brings together multidisciplinary and international perspectives on the importance of diasporic and transnational networks for the formation of ethnic identity by migrant youths. Within the context of this issue migrant youths refer to young people (aged 16–35 years) who are themselves migrants or are children and grandchildren of migrants. Our attention to the transnational and diasporic identities of migrant youths is in dire…
Growing old in a transnational social field
This article focuses on ageing in transnationalism. Drawing on the experiences of Italians in the UK as a paradigmatic example of settled European migrants, it explores the lived experiences of this group of older migrants. Using Levitt and Glick Schiller's framework,it concentrates first on migrants'ways of being and then on their ways of belonging. The article argues that a transnational lens is necessary to understand the experiences of older …
Bringing transnational families from the margins to the centre of family studies in Britain
Britain, alongside other Western contemporary societies, has undergone important social and demographic transformations resulting from increased migration. One important change is that family life is increasingly practised across national borders. Research within the field of migration studies, has been pivotal in highlighting the maintenance of family networks across national borders and geographical distance. Yet, rather surprisingly, a detaile…
Transnational mothering and forced migration
A growing body of scholarship has documented the experiences of different groups of migrants involved in the maintenance and development of transnational families worldwide showing that proximity is not a prerequisite of family life and that families can successfully be done from a distance. While most work deals with the experiences of labour migrants less attention has been paid to forced migrants. Still little is known about families that fail…
Intimacy and Italian Migration
Loretta Baldassar and Donna Gabaccia (eds), INTIMACY AND ITALIAN MIGRATION: GENDER AND DOMESTIC LIVES IN A MOBILE WORLD, New York: Fordham University Press, 2011, 235 pp., $22.00 (paper) The questi
Transnational Families
1.Theorising Transnational Families 2.Social Capital Joins the Trinity: Families, Ethnicities, Communities 3.Methodological Issues and Challenges 4.Migration, Transnational Families and Communities 5.Migrants, Offspring, and Settlement 6.Families, Needs and Caring Practices 7.Continuity and Invention Of Identities Within Families and Communities 8.Problems of Belonging and 'Return' 9.Alienation and Escape from the Family and Community 10.Crossing…
Transnational Families, Migration and Gender
By linking the experiences of immigrant families with the increased reliance on cheap and flexible workers for care and domestic work in Southern Europe, this study documents the lived experiences of neglected actors of globalization — migrant women — as well as the transformations of Western families more generally. However, while describing in detail the structural and cultural contexts within which these women have to operate, the book questio…
Transnational Families
Contemporary Western society is changing and, controversially, migration is often flagged up as one of the reasons why. The nature of population change challenges the conventional understandings of family forms and networks whilst multiculturalism poses challenges to our understanding of social change, families and social capital. This innovative book provides an overview of the emergence of new understandings of ethnicities, identities and famil…
Enabling and constraining aspects of social capital in migrant families
This article sets out to examine the use, production and maintenance of social capital in the context of migration through an in-depth analysis of the everyday experiences of young people in Italian families in the UK and Italy. Social capital is usually described in the literature as membership in networks that either helps individuals to get ahead or to preserve positions of power. In this article, I move beyond these one-sided understandings o…
Resisting Fortress Europe
This article considers the political engagement used by Moroccan and Filipino women in Southern Europe. It argues that immigrant women should be seen as active subjects rather than passive victims who accept subordinate roles both in their families and in the societies where they have settled. In order to appreciate the kind of political agency migrant women deploy, the article suggests two preliminary steps: extending the definition of the polit…
Ethnicity, Families and Social Capital
Social capital theorists acknowledge that caring networks operating within and above all across households lie at the heart of families and communities. They also see these networks and family bonds as generally declining in contemporary society due to individualisation. However, there seems to be little empirical evidence documenting these processes in detail, particularly with regards to minority ethnic and transnational families. This article …
Continuity and Change in Transnational Italian Families
This article deals with continuity and change in immigrant families, focusing on the caring practices of the adult children of Italian migrants in the UK. Looking at motherhood, care for the elderly and the management of kin relations at a distance, the paper explores how values and norms get transmitted and transformed across the generations. The article shows both continuity and change in norms and values about care, and argues that change occu…
Introduction
2006). Introduction: Some critical reflections on social capital, migration and transnational families. Ethnic and Racial Studies: Vol. 29, Social capital,migration and transnational families, pp. 1025-1039
Italian Families and Social Capital
This paper explores how care provision takes place in families across countries and generations and what are its implications for the individuals and families involved. Drawing on the experiences of women of Italian origin who have migrated at different times, the paper shows that families are complex and fluid entities capable of adapting to different circumstances, such as geographical dispersal and rapid cultural changes. Rather than being in …
Immigrant women in Barcelona
One of the obvious effects of transnationalism is the geographical dispersal and fragmentation of families. Few scholars have looked at this aspect in depth, beyond a mere recognition of the existence of so-called transnational kinship groups. Fewer studies still have considered the implications of transnationalism for women, even though they represent a growing percentage of the migrant population world-wide. The aims of this article are threefo…
The role of gender in the South European immigration model
L’objectiu d’aquest article és contextualitzar la immigració femenina a l’Europa del sud dins de les especificitats del model d’immigració de l’Europa del sud. Un model molt diferent del de les migracions europees de treball dels anys cinquanta i seixanta, quan els països de l’Europa del sud oferien mà d’obra migrant. Aquest nou model d’immigració a l’Europa del sud comprèn un nombre de característiques clau, com ara l’heterogeneïtat dels països …
Growing old in a transnational social field
This article focuses on ageing in transnationalism. Drawing on the experiences of Italians in the UK as a paradigmatic example of settled European migrants, it explores the lived experiences of this group of older migrants. Using Levitt and Glick Schiller's framework,it concentrates first on migrants'ways of being and then on their ways of belonging. The article argues that a transnational lens is necessary to understand the experiences of older …
Immigrant women in Barcelona
One of the obvious effects of transnationalism is the geographical dispersal and fragmentation of families. Few scholars have looked at this aspect in depth, beyond a mere recognition of the existence of so-called transnational kinship groups. Fewer studies still have considered the implications of transnationalism for women, even though they represent a growing percentage of the migrant population world-wide. The aims of this article are threefo…
Introduction
2006). Introduction: Some critical reflections on social capital, migration and transnational families. Ethnic and Racial Studies: Vol. 29, Social capital,migration and transnational families, pp. 1025-1039
Enabling and constraining aspects of social capital in migrant families
This article sets out to examine the use, production and maintenance of social capital in the context of migration through an in-depth analysis of the everyday experiences of young people in Italian families in the UK and Italy. Social capital is usually described in the literature as membership in networks that either helps individuals to get ahead or to preserve positions of power. In this article, I move beyond these one-sided understandings o…
Italian Families and Social Capital
This paper explores how care provision takes place in families across countries and generations and what are its implications for the individuals and families involved. Drawing on the experiences of women of Italian origin who have migrated at different times, the paper shows that families are complex and fluid entities capable of adapting to different circumstances, such as geographical dispersal and rapid cultural changes. Rather than being in …
Continuity and Change in Transnational Italian Families
This article deals with continuity and change in immigrant families, focusing on the caring practices of the adult children of Italian migrants in the UK. Looking at motherhood, care for the elderly and the management of kin relations at a distance, the paper explores how values and norms get transmitted and transformed across the generations. The article shows both continuity and change in norms and values about care, and argues that change occu…
Transnational mothering and forced migration
A growing body of scholarship has documented the experiences of different groups of migrants involved in the maintenance and development of transnational families worldwide showing that proximity is not a prerequisite of family life and that families can successfully be done from a distance. While most work deals with the experiences of labour migrants less attention has been paid to forced migrants. Still little is known about families that fail…
EU Children in Brexit Britain
This article contributes to debates on identification, home and belonging by focusing on EU children in Brexit times. 1 The article combines attention to the emotional and affective side of integration with a focus on the effects of the discursive practices of the state on these processes. The article explores how Italian children and their parents navigate the increasingly neo‐assimilationist pressures in Britain. Specifically, it looks at child…
Mapping the role of 'transnational family habitus' in the lives of young people and children
In this article, we develop the concept of 'transnational family habitus' as a theoretical tool for making sense of the ways in which children and young people from a migrant background are 'doing families' transnationally. Drawing on over a decade of cumulative research on Caribbean and Italian families in the UK, as well as on a new joint research project, we first investigate the opportunities and consequences of a transnational family habitus…
Bringing transnational families from the margins to the centre of family studies in Britain
Britain, alongside other Western contemporary societies, has undergone important social and demographic transformations resulting from increased migration. One important change is that family life is increasingly practised across national borders. Research within the field of migration studies, has been pivotal in highlighting the maintenance of family networks across national borders and geographical distance. Yet, rather surprisingly, a detaile…
Intimacy and Italian Migration
Loretta Baldassar and Donna Gabaccia (eds), INTIMACY AND ITALIAN MIGRATION: GENDER AND DOMESTIC LIVES IN A MOBILE WORLD, New York: Fordham University Press, 2011, 235 pp., $22.00 (paper) The questi
Ethnicity, Families and Social Capital
Social capital theorists acknowledge that caring networks operating within and above all across households lie at the heart of families and communities. They also see these networks and family bonds as generally declining in contemporary society due to individualisation. However, there seems to be little empirical evidence documenting these processes in detail, particularly with regards to minority ethnic and transnational families. This article …
The role of gender in the South European immigration model
L’objectiu d’aquest article és contextualitzar la immigració femenina a l’Europa del sud dins de les especificitats del model d’immigració de l’Europa del sud. Un model molt diferent del de les migracions europees de treball dels anys cinquanta i seixanta, quan els països de l’Europa del sud oferien mà d’obra migrant. Aquest nou model d’immigració a l’Europa del sud comprèn un nombre de característiques clau, com ara l’heterogeneïtat dels països …
Researching the researcher
Reflexivity has been central to recent debates in migration studies, focusing on how migration scholarship can become more equitable, inclusive, and attuned to the power dynamics inherent in research processes. In this article, we advance these debates by demonstrating the role of emotions as crucial tools for knowledge production. Drawing on feminist qualitative research, we introduce our emotionally-sensed approach to account for the role of em…
Studying the Emotional Costs of Integration at Times of Change
Events such as Brexit have drawn attention to the precarity of contemporary migrants' settlement rights and reopened the debate on the nature of integration and assimilation processes. Drawing on participant observation and interviews with Italian and Bulgarian migrants in Brexit Britain, this article develops a novel approach for understanding migrants' changing relationships with their countries of settlement and their current and future practi…
Resisting Fortress Europe
This article considers the political engagement used by Moroccan and Filipino women in Southern Europe. It argues that immigrant women should be seen as active subjects rather than passive victims who accept subordinate roles both in their families and in the societies where they have settled. In order to appreciate the kind of political agency migrant women deploy, the article suggests two preliminary steps: extending the definition of the polit…
The role of gender in the South European immigration model
L’objectiu d’aquest article és contextualitzar la immigració femenina a l’Europa del sud dins de les especificitats del model d’immigració de l’Europa del sud. Un model molt diferent del de les migracions europees de treball dels anys cinquanta i seixanta, quan els països de l’Europa del sud oferien mà d’obra migrant. Aquest nou model d’immigració a l’Europa del sud comprèn un nombre de característiques clau, com ara l’heterogeneïtat dels països …
Immigrant women in Barcelona
One of the obvious effects of transnationalism is the geographical dispersal and fragmentation of families. Few scholars have looked at this aspect in depth, beyond a mere recognition of the existence of so-called transnational kinship groups. Fewer studies still have considered the implications of transnationalism for women, even though they represent a growing percentage of the migrant population world-wide. The aims of this article are threefo…
Introduction
2006). Introduction: Some critical reflections on social capital, migration and transnational families. Ethnic and Racial Studies: Vol. 29, Social capital,migration and transnational families, pp. 1025-1039
Italian Families and Social Capital
This paper explores how care provision takes place in families across countries and generations and what are its implications for the individuals and families involved. Drawing on the experiences of women of Italian origin who have migrated at different times, the paper shows that families are complex and fluid entities capable of adapting to different circumstances, such as geographical dispersal and rapid cultural changes. Rather than being in …
Ethnicity, Families and Social Capital
Social capital theorists acknowledge that caring networks operating within and above all across households lie at the heart of families and communities. They also see these networks and family bonds as generally declining in contemporary society due to individualisation. However, there seems to be little empirical evidence documenting these processes in detail, particularly with regards to minority ethnic and transnational families. This article …
Continuity and Change in Transnational Italian Families
This article deals with continuity and change in immigrant families, focusing on the caring practices of the adult children of Italian migrants in the UK. Looking at motherhood, care for the elderly and the management of kin relations at a distance, the paper explores how values and norms get transmitted and transformed across the generations. The article shows both continuity and change in norms and values about care, and argues that change occu…
Resisting Fortress Europe
This article considers the political engagement used by Moroccan and Filipino women in Southern Europe. It argues that immigrant women should be seen as active subjects rather than passive victims who accept subordinate roles both in their families and in the societies where they have settled. In order to appreciate the kind of political agency migrant women deploy, the article suggests two preliminary steps: extending the definition of the polit…
Transnational Families
1.Theorising Transnational Families 2.Social Capital Joins the Trinity: Families, Ethnicities, Communities 3.Methodological Issues and Challenges 4.Migration, Transnational Families and Communities 5.Migrants, Offspring, and Settlement 6.Families, Needs and Caring Practices 7.Continuity and Invention Of Identities Within Families and Communities 8.Problems of Belonging and 'Return' 9.Alienation and Escape from the Family and Community 10.Crossing…
Transnational Families, Migration and Gender
By linking the experiences of immigrant families with the increased reliance on cheap and flexible workers for care and domestic work in Southern Europe, this study documents the lived experiences of neglected actors of globalization — migrant women — as well as the transformations of Western families more generally. However, while describing in detail the structural and cultural contexts within which these women have to operate, the book questio…
Transnational Families
Contemporary Western society is changing and, controversially, migration is often flagged up as one of the reasons why. The nature of population change challenges the conventional understandings of family forms and networks whilst multiculturalism poses challenges to our understanding of social change, families and social capital. This innovative book provides an overview of the emergence of new understandings of ethnicities, identities and famil…
Enabling and constraining aspects of social capital in migrant families
This article sets out to examine the use, production and maintenance of social capital in the context of migration through an in-depth analysis of the everyday experiences of young people in Italian families in the UK and Italy. Social capital is usually described in the literature as membership in networks that either helps individuals to get ahead or to preserve positions of power. In this article, I move beyond these one-sided understandings o…
Transnational mothering and forced migration
A growing body of scholarship has documented the experiences of different groups of migrants involved in the maintenance and development of transnational families worldwide showing that proximity is not a prerequisite of family life and that families can successfully be done from a distance. While most work deals with the experiences of labour migrants less attention has been paid to forced migrants. Still little is known about families that fail…
Intimacy and Italian Migration
Loretta Baldassar and Donna Gabaccia (eds), INTIMACY AND ITALIAN MIGRATION: GENDER AND DOMESTIC LIVES IN A MOBILE WORLD, New York: Fordham University Press, 2011, 235 pp., $22.00 (paper) The questi
Bringing transnational families from the margins to the centre of family studies in Britain
Britain, alongside other Western contemporary societies, has undergone important social and demographic transformations resulting from increased migration. One important change is that family life is increasingly practised across national borders. Research within the field of migration studies, has been pivotal in highlighting the maintenance of family networks across national borders and geographical distance. Yet, rather surprisingly, a detaile…
Growing old in a transnational social field
This article focuses on ageing in transnationalism. Drawing on the experiences of Italians in the UK as a paradigmatic example of settled European migrants, it explores the lived experiences of this group of older migrants. Using Levitt and Glick Schiller's framework,it concentrates first on migrants'ways of being and then on their ways of belonging. The article argues that a transnational lens is necessary to understand the experiences of older …
Transnational and diasporic youth identities
This special issue brings together multidisciplinary and international perspectives on the importance of diasporic and transnational networks for the formation of ethnic identity by migrant youths. Within the context of this issue migrant youths refer to young people (aged 16–35 years) who are themselves migrants or are children and grandchildren of migrants. Our attention to the transnational and diasporic identities of migrant youths is in dire…
Mapping the role of 'transnational family habitus' in the lives of young people and children
In this article, we develop the concept of 'transnational family habitus' as a theoretical tool for making sense of the ways in which children and young people from a migrant background are 'doing families' transnationally. Drawing on over a decade of cumulative research on Caribbean and Italian families in the UK, as well as on a new joint research project, we first investigate the opportunities and consequences of a transnational family habitus…
EU Children in Brexit Britain
This article contributes to debates on identification, home and belonging by focusing on EU children in Brexit times. 1 The article combines attention to the emotional and affective side of integration with a focus on the effects of the discursive practices of the state on these processes. The article explores how Italian children and their parents navigate the increasingly neo‐assimilationist pressures in Britain. Specifically, it looks at child…
Transnational Families, Migration and Gender
By linking the experiences of immigrant families with the increased reliance on cheap and flexible workers for care and domestic work in Southern Europe, this study documents the lived experiences of neglected actors of globalization - migrant women - as well as the transformations of Western families more generally. However, while describing in detail the structural and cultural contexts within which these women have to operate, the book questio…
Studying the Emotional Costs of Integration at Times of Change
Events such as Brexit have drawn attention to the precarity of contemporary migrants' settlement rights and reopened the debate on the nature of integration and assimilation processes. Drawing on participant observation and interviews with Italian and Bulgarian migrants in Brexit Britain, this article develops a novel approach for understanding migrants' changing relationships with their countries of settlement and their current and future practi…
Researching the researcher
Reflexivity has been central to recent debates in migration studies, focusing on how migration scholarship can become more equitable, inclusive, and attuned to the power dynamics inherent in research processes. In this article, we advance these debates by demonstrating the role of emotions as crucial tools for knowledge production. Drawing on feminist qualitative research, we introduce our emotionally-sensed approach to account for the role of em…
Sociology (19 obras) · Political science (18 obras) · Gender Studies (17 obras) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (16 obras) · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy (11 obras) · Law (10 obras) · Geography (8 obras) · Social science (8 obras) · Anthropology (7 obras) · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity (7 obras)