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Gender, Migration and the Intergenerational Transfer of Human Wellbeing

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Authors:
  1. Katie Wright

    1. School of Social Sciences, University of East London, London, UK

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  • Contributes to an emerging body of work on intergenerational transfers of human wellbeing in the context of migration

  • Highlights the gendered processes through which such transfers occur

  • Provides a longer term view by utilising intergenerational chains as the unit of analysis

  • Illustrates how a fusion of gender, life course and human wellbeing perspectives can enhance policy outcomes

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction

    • Katie Wright
    Pages 1-12

  3. Intergenerational Transfers over the Life Course: Addressing Gendered and Temporal Complexities

    • Katie Wright
    Pages 13-29

  4. Intergenerational Transfers, Migration and Human Wellbeing

    • Katie Wright
    Pages 31-47

  5. Contextualising Intergenerational Transmission and Human Wellbeing in London

    • Katie Wright
    Pages 49-71

  6. International Migration and Intergenerational Transmission: Latin American Migrant Women and Their Daughters in London

    • Katie Wright
    Pages 73-90

  7. Intergenerational Relations and Gendered Transmissions: Conflicts, Reparations and Solidarities

    • Katie Wright
    Pages 91-124

  8. Conclusions and Implications for Theory and Policy

    • Katie Wright
    Pages 125-132

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 133-141
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About this book

This book discusses how human wellbeing is constructed and transferred intergenerationally in the context of international migration. Research on intergenerational transmission (IGT) has tended to focus on material asset transfers prompting calls to balance material asset analysis with that of psychosocial assets – including norms, values attitudes and behaviors. Drawing on empirical research undertaken with Latin American migrants in London, Katie Wright sets out to redress the balance by examining how far psychosocial transfers may be used as a buffer to mediate the material deprivations that migrants face via adoption of a gender, life course and human wellbeing perspective. 

Reviews

“Wright’s study offers implications for both theory and public policy. … Katie Wright’s study is undoubtedly important, but its empirical findings, in my view, are even more interesting and richer than the conclusion drawn from them in the book.” (Judith Kausch-Zongo, Intergenerational Justice Review, Vol. 7 (1), 2021)

Authors and Affiliations

  • School of Social Sciences, University of East London, London, UK

    Katie Wright

About the author

Katie Wright is Reader in International Development at the University of East London, UK. Her research focuses on gender, human wellbeing, international migration, microfinance, sustainable livelihoods and Latin America. Her previous monograph, International Migration, Development, Human Wellbeing and International Migration (2012) drew on Economic and Social Research Council funded work in this area. 


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