Famiglie dal Marocco, India, Pakistan: ridefinizione della tradizione in un sistema di stratificazione civica

Abstract

How migrant families are reunified and the forms they take varies with the culture and social origin, though also with the family’s migratory strategy, the socio-cultural context of the host country and the latter’s chosen migration policy. The range of migrant family types and the differing patterns under which they reunite suggest they should be seen as the dynamic outcome of a complex process responding to a host of rules, including those of law. In this paper we focus on family reunification. The article presents the main results of an empiric research on reunited families from Morocco, Pakistan and India to Italy. The research has analyzed the processes of reunification and the characters of migrant families through their transnational practices; in particular, the research has shown that these practices enable the reinterpretation of traditional codes of conduct and behaviors. At the same time, the article discusses how the normative regulation of family reunification in a system of civic stratification interacts with transnational strategies of immigrated families.