The European ‘migration crisis’: Families split and reconfigured across divides
Family reunification policies in Europe are notoriously limited in terms of which family members count as worthy of re-uniting. While parents are permitted to reunite with their children of up to 17-years of age, an 18-year old does not qualify for family reunification with their next of kin. Moreover, extended family membership – once recognised as the norm in Europe – does not count under contemporary reunification rules. Instead, the nuclear family has emerged as a norm to which people migrating are forced to comply. As a so-called refugee or migration ‘crisis’ storms Europe and people escape violence and conflict in whatever ways they can, families are thus split and reconfigured in new ways.
▻http://discoversociety.org/2017/05/02/the-european-migration-crisis-families-split-and-reconfigured-acros
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