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The first part of the study will provide a theoretical discussion of the literature on gender, ethnic and racial power relations within the family. In the central stage of the research, different transnational and ethnically mixed families will be selected as respondents for obtaining original empirical data. The research will focus on racialized and gendered conflicts and tensions in the family, as well as positive intercultural exchanges and hybrid practices that arise in the course of couple’s / family’s everyday life in relation to issues of identity, belonging, power, language, and children’s upbringing.
These family practices will be critically assessed against the background of family and migration policies (including family reunification, domestic violence) that reinforce and legitimize informal racialized and gendered practices within mixed or transnational families. At the same time, however, the potential of mixed or transnational families to become sites of intercultural interaction and to produce hybrid identities will be examined. The results of the field work will be used to produce a research report which will (a) analyse from a gendered perspective the tensions and possibilities engendered in mixed and transnational families, and (b) include theoretical and policy implications for understanding mixed and transnational families as ‘enabling’, hybrid spaces of intercultural interaction.
