Extended Kinship and Mobility
The Influence of Non-Nuclear Family Ties on the Migration of Young Ukrainians
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6461689 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Luděk Jirka (0000-0002-2630-4550, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 112 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 233-251 |
| Publication date | 2025-06-25 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Český lid (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0009-0794 • E-ISSN: 2570-9216 |
| Publisher | Institute of Ethnology, Czech Academy of Sciences (PUBLISHER • CZ) |
| DOI | 10.21104/cl.2025.2.04 |
| OpenAlex | W4412090374 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 8 |
The nuclear family, consisting of children, mother and father, is often the primary unit of analysis in migration studies. However, this approach has been criticised for its normative context. More recently, scholars have emphasized the relational perspective and multi-layered family ties when debating the notion of family. Based on qualitative anthropological research in Western Ukraine and in the Czech Republic, this article adopts this approach by focusing on how the family practices of young Ukrainians (aged 15–16 at the time of migration) challenge the nuclear family framework. These young people are the first migrants from their nuclear families in the Czech Republic, while their parents have remained in Ukraine. The text focuses on the financial support, emotional support, and practical assistance provided to them by their relatives, demonstrating that parents were still important in all three categories, while cousins were significant in providing emotional support
Economic geography · Family ties · Genealogy · Geography · Kinship · Nuclear family · Sociology · Anthropology · History · Labor Market and Education · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Regional Socio-Economic Development Trends
Materialising Care across Borders
Costs and Benefits of Labour Migration for Ukrainian Transnational Families
Voices of Refugee Families from Ukraine Currently Living in the Czech Republic
Transnationalism, Integration and Identification
Doing family' through ICT-mediatedordinary co-presence
Child Migration and Questions of Agency
Locating 'Family Practices
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |