ABSTRACT
This chapter draws on the theoretical intersection between the literature on family and on migration while considering how incorporation of family as a unit of analysis could address some of the central concerns and limitations of development scholarship. This review uses a family practices approach, focusing on the social activities and routines that individuals engage in to create and define their families. Thus, this entry highlights new migration and family scholarship that has focused on the emotional, interpersonal, and economic difficulties associated with maintaining family relationships and forms in migration. This review presents scholarship that demonstrates the potential for migration to enable the creation of new family forms. An emphasis on the infleunce of legal and social marginalization on the ability of migrants to rely on familial support undergirds the emphasis of this chapter on both the difficulties and possibilities of migration for family practices. Finally, this contribution proposes two areas of research. First, to continue research on how the family practices of migrants are influenced by legal status and material resources including research on those living in legal liminality and deportability. Second, to investigate intergenerational support for individuals migrating from the global north to the global south to retire abroad.
