Family migration: Demographics and sociopsychological issues

This chapter highlights the sociopsychological aspects of family migration. More specifically, the chapter focuses on some individual migrants (such as children) within the family and their adaptation in a new cultural context, as transformed gender relations and its impact on men in the face of migration, fostering, and family separation together with transnational parenting. This chapter also looks at a special group of youth in the United States, which has become a political issue for the government. The chapter, however, begins with the demographics of family migration after a brief discussion of who or what constitutes family migration.