Moving families : expatriation, stress and coping /
Haour-Knipe, Mary,
Moving families : expatriation, stress and coping / Mary Haour-Knipe. - London : Routledge, 2001. - 1 online resource (xiv, 241 pages)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Who are they, and why do they move? -- Relation between work and moving -- Decision to move -- What is stressful about moving abroad? -- Stress around the move itself -- Hassles as a threat to feelings of adult competence -- Language -- Comfortable known-ness of things, and what is taken for granted -- Not knowing the rules, threats to identity -- Initial isolation and loneliness: 'Nobody would know if I left for three days' -- Strains on families -- Two careers or one? -- Partners not 'adjusting well' -- 'Duty travel' and strains it may cover -- Different values -- Coping -- Event and meaning, comprehensibility and manageability -- Family sense of coherence -- Coping with the stresses of moving to a new culture -- Giving and receiving social support -- Relationships with extended families -- Social support over long distances -- Support coming from the new place -- Gaining control over social relations -- Mobilising social support -- Social support in Geneva and in 'hardship posts' -- Social support from within the family -- Families operating together -- High family 'co-ordination', meeting people and family separations -- Low family 'co-ordination' and family members in difficulty -- Imbalances of authority, encountering different values -- Effects on children -- School-aged children -- Rounger children -- Adolescents and older children -- Effect of the move: two case studies -- Foster family -- Wood family -- Families two years later -- Coping with issues around two careers -- Phases of adaptation -- Families' reflections on the effects of migration -- Towards explaining the effects of the move on families -- Influence of SOC and of family 'co-ordination' -- Long-term effects? -- Expatriation, stress, coping and families -- Stress and families.
Online version licensed for access by U. of T. users.
Through rich interviews conducted over a period of two years, this book shows the processes of change and adjustment at work. The findings will be of interest to students of wider issues of migration and to those who study the family under pressure.
English.
0203184319 (electronic bk.) 9780203184318 (electronic bk.) 9781135359829 (electronic bk.) 1135359822 (electronic bk.) (cased) (pbk.)
00030253
GBA067166 bnb
1857288149 Uk 000021465829 AU
Čubrilović Familie : 19. Jh.-
Moving, Household--Psychological aspects.
Emigration and immigration--Psychological aspects.
Expatriation--Psychological aspects.
Moving, Household--Case studies.
Déménagement--Aspect psychologique.
Émigration et immigration--Aspect psychologique.
Déménagement--Études de cas.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS--Alternative Family.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS--Reference.
Family and Relationships.
Emigration and immigration--Psychological aspects.
Expatriation--Psychological aspects.
Moving, Household.
Moving, Household--Psychological aspects.
Wohnungswechsel
Auswirkung
Immigration & Emigration.
Political Science.
Law, Politics & Government.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Case studies.
JV6013 / .H36 2001eb
306.85
Moving families : expatriation, stress and coping / Mary Haour-Knipe. - London : Routledge, 2001. - 1 online resource (xiv, 241 pages)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Who are they, and why do they move? -- Relation between work and moving -- Decision to move -- What is stressful about moving abroad? -- Stress around the move itself -- Hassles as a threat to feelings of adult competence -- Language -- Comfortable known-ness of things, and what is taken for granted -- Not knowing the rules, threats to identity -- Initial isolation and loneliness: 'Nobody would know if I left for three days' -- Strains on families -- Two careers or one? -- Partners not 'adjusting well' -- 'Duty travel' and strains it may cover -- Different values -- Coping -- Event and meaning, comprehensibility and manageability -- Family sense of coherence -- Coping with the stresses of moving to a new culture -- Giving and receiving social support -- Relationships with extended families -- Social support over long distances -- Support coming from the new place -- Gaining control over social relations -- Mobilising social support -- Social support in Geneva and in 'hardship posts' -- Social support from within the family -- Families operating together -- High family 'co-ordination', meeting people and family separations -- Low family 'co-ordination' and family members in difficulty -- Imbalances of authority, encountering different values -- Effects on children -- School-aged children -- Rounger children -- Adolescents and older children -- Effect of the move: two case studies -- Foster family -- Wood family -- Families two years later -- Coping with issues around two careers -- Phases of adaptation -- Families' reflections on the effects of migration -- Towards explaining the effects of the move on families -- Influence of SOC and of family 'co-ordination' -- Long-term effects? -- Expatriation, stress, coping and families -- Stress and families.
Online version licensed for access by U. of T. users.
Through rich interviews conducted over a period of two years, this book shows the processes of change and adjustment at work. The findings will be of interest to students of wider issues of migration and to those who study the family under pressure.
English.
0203184319 (electronic bk.) 9780203184318 (electronic bk.) 9781135359829 (electronic bk.) 1135359822 (electronic bk.) (cased) (pbk.)
00030253
GBA067166 bnb
1857288149 Uk 000021465829 AU
Čubrilović Familie : 19. Jh.-
Moving, Household--Psychological aspects.
Emigration and immigration--Psychological aspects.
Expatriation--Psychological aspects.
Moving, Household--Case studies.
Déménagement--Aspect psychologique.
Émigration et immigration--Aspect psychologique.
Déménagement--Études de cas.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS--Alternative Family.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS--Reference.
Family and Relationships.
Emigration and immigration--Psychological aspects.
Expatriation--Psychological aspects.
Moving, Household.
Moving, Household--Psychological aspects.
Wohnungswechsel
Auswirkung
Immigration & Emigration.
Political Science.
Law, Politics & Government.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Case studies.
JV6013 / .H36 2001eb
306.85