TY  - BOOK
AU  - Haour-Knipe,Mary
TI  - Moving families: expatriation, stress and coping 
SN  - 0203184319
AV  - JV6013 .H36 2001eb
U1  - 306.85 21
PY  - 2001///
CY  - London
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Čubrilović
KW  - Moving, Household
KW  - Psychological aspects
KW  - Emigration and immigration
KW  - Expatriation
KW  - Case studies
KW  - Déménagement
KW  - Aspect psychologique
KW  - Émigration et immigration
KW  - Études de cas
KW  - FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS
KW  - Alternative Family
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Reference
KW  - Family and Relationships
KW  - eflch
KW  - fast
KW  - Wohnungswechsel
KW  - gnd
KW  - Auswirkung
KW  - Immigration & Emigration
KW  - hilcc
KW  - Political Science
KW  - Law, Politics & Government
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
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ER  -