Academic literature on the topic 'Transnational children'

Drawing on over a decade of empirical research, this article develops the framework of ‘Transnational Care Constellations’ in order to understand how mothers, children and caregivers are connected across national terrains. This approach takes into account the ways families organize care, economic, health and everyday decisions and focuses on relationships across nations. The purpose of this article is twofold: (1) to present relevant literature in transnational migration research that has led me to think about care as a central piece that keeps families together; and (2) to show through empirical ethnographic data three cases of families that are organized transnationally. This article also takes into consideration the impacts of a global pandemic in the modes of communication transnational care constellations have used.

This special issue seeks to enrich readers’ understandings of the transnational family practices and relations of selected migrant groups of a predominantly Muslim background in a number of Western contexts. It presents theoretically and empirically grounded studies that investigate how these family practices and ties are transnationally shaped, navigated and experienced by different family members. It focuses on two aspects of family life: marriage and the second generation’s aspirations and transnational experiences. Under the first theme, this special issue examines how marriage, migration and kinship interplay in transnationally shaped social fields where multiple legal and normative systems intersect in the lives of migrants. With regards to the second theme, the issue investigates how the children of migrants navigate and experience transnational family norms, ties and practices. Throughout the issue, individual articles shed light on the gendered dimensions of the different family practices and experiences.

With growing global emergencies, child abduction became a concern in countries of origin and reception of transnationally adopted children. Improved regulations and standards to prevent child trafficking exhibit failures to ensure the best interest of children and the principle of subsidiarity. The article reviews relevant literature documents the Guatemalan birthmothers’ experiences and documented child theft, deception by trafficking networks, fraudulent adoptions, and familial coercion. Human rights and child welfare system implications drawn may be relevant to irregular transnational adoptions elsewhere.

Although migration scholars have called for studying both ends of migration, few studies have empirically done so. In this article the author analyzes ethnographic data conducted with migrant careworkers in Italy, many undocumented, and their non-migrant children in Ukraine to uncover the meanings they assign to monetary and also social remittances defined as the transfer of ideas, behaviors, and values between sending and receiving countries. The author argues that migrants and non-migrant children within transnational families produce a transnational moral economy or a set of social norms based on a shared migration discourse – in this case, either poverty or European aspirations – which governs economic and social practices in both sending and receiving sites. The author found that these contrasting transnational moral economies resulted in the production of ‘Soviet’ versus ‘capitalist’ subjectivities with consequences for migrant practices of integration in Italy, consumption practices for migrants and their non-migrant children, and for Ukraine’s nation-state building project.

The paper focuses on language in transnational education and puts children’s perspectives in the spotlight. In light of increasing transnational mobility, their voices are of particular significance: How do transnational children – children with migration experience – perceive the role of languages in educational trajectories? In order to answer these questions, a qualitative study was conducted with children of Soviet immigrants who were socialized in a Hebrew-speaking education system and who are today pupils in Germany. The findings from group conversation and language portraits allow deep insights into children’s perspectives on multilingual practices and highlight the importance of the environment – in this case, a German school that became part of transnational education by offering opportunities for students with migration experience.

Evidence suggests Colombia’s transnational adoption program maintained systemic problematic practices, some of which were illicit in nature. Examples include child and birthmother trafficking, sale of children, and falsifying or omitting information in adoption documentation. Transnationally adopted Colombian adults encounter significant barriers to accessing their right to know their origins and identity. Despite this, some adult Colombian adoptees are successful in searching for and engaging in birth family reunions. Our study conducted a secondary analysis of an original study on Colombian birth family reunion experiences. We asked the research question, “What discrepancies exist in Colombian transnational adoption narratives?” to perform a directed qualitative content analysis of 17 participant interviews. We found nearly half of our participants reported an illicit practice categorized as child for sale, birthmother trafficking, and abuse of process. Findings underscore the legacy and impact of harmful adoption practices on current adult Colombian transnational adoptees seeking their human right to identity.

The development of artificial reproductive technology and the legal difference of surrogacy lead to a large number of transnational surrogacy children and many disputes about the legal parent status of transnational surrogacy children. The main reasons for the difficulty in identifying the parental relationship of the present transnational surrogacy children are the different identification of the surrogacy agreement and the parent-child relationship in different countries, the emergence of the "lame parental right" caused by the application of the principle of public order, and the reflect to recognize the transnational surrogacy parent-child relationship on the grounds of legal evasion.Based on the analysis of the reasons for the difficulty in identifying the parent-child relationship and the experience of determining the surrogate parent-child relationship in various countries, the exploration of the path to determine the parent-child relationship of the transnational surrogacy children mainly includes establishing the parent-child relationship according to the surrogacy agreement, establishing the adoption relationship to establish the parent-child relationship, and redefining the parent-child relationship according to the conflict norms of the country where the intended parents are located.At present, there is no basic law to regulate surrogacy in China. In practice, the legal parents of surrogacy children are established in the way of confirming the parentage of factual support. On the premise of balancing the best interests of children and social public order, we should protect the right of identity of transnational surrogacy children by perfecting laws and regulations, and maximize the function of technology to benefit mankind.

There were many cases derived from transnational marriages. For an instance, many Indonesian international students have married their spouses from the country where they are studying. Transnational marriage is prone to future conflicts, especially regarding the status of the children. The civil rights of children from a transnational married couple living in Indonesia are regulated on Act No. 12/2006 on Citizenship (Citizenship Act). This research is pure legal research that is carried out by examining previous literature. From this study, it was found that the status of children born from transnational families according to the Citizenship Act is based on bloodlines following the father. If the father is a foreign citizen, the child will also be a foreign citizen. On contrary, if the father is an Indonesian citizen, the legal status of the child is also as an Indonesian citizen, from here the role of the mother becomes neglected. Furthermore, Citizenship Act guarantees that the children have the right to determine or choose citizenship after the age of 18 years, the child is required to choose one nationality. Legal protection for children born from transnational marriages is the right to choose their nationality.

This thesis assesses how languages are managed in families with at least one transnational anglophone parent (TAP) resident in the metropolitan region of Barcelona. The languages chosen by TAPS for use with family members and especially for intergenerational transmission are the focus of the analysis, which combines quantitative and qualitative methods, macro and micro perspectives in order to account for the multiple influences that language choice is subject to at different levels. The way in which family language choices are made, justified, implemented and revised by parents as the (at least initially) primary actors of family language management (FLM) are then analysed. The first stage of the study contextualises the second by means of a sociodemographic and sociolinguistic description of 164 TAPs and their families, using quantitative data from the Family Language Questionnaire representing 614 individuals (331 parents and 283 children). The responding parents are of relatively high socio-economic status compared to other migrant groups and are fairly mobile, often for professional reasons. A considerable amount of English is used by TAPs within the family, which corresponds to its high rate of intergenerational transmission, both when measured according to children’s language ability and use. Family language use indexes, created for each type of interaction, are then used in cluster analysis procedure to identify four distinct profiles. The first two clusters are the largest: cluster one (n=47) representing Castilian-English bilingual families and cluster two (n=94) representing monolingual English families. The third cluster includes fifteen trilingual families whose parents use Castilian with each other but English and Catalan with the children, and the fourth cluster is the smallest, made up of just eight Catalan-English bilingual families. The second stage involves the qualitative analysis of interview data with 26 TAPs who represent the different family profiles and three age ranges of children (0-5, 6-11 and 12-16). Almost all parents recount conscious FLM decision-making processes and detail ambitious intended linguistic outcomes for their children, with many hoping for their children to attain native or native-like levels of English, Castilian and Catalan, as well as abilities in additional foreign languages. English is given high importance by all parents, who link it closely with ideologies of authenticity and identity whilst simultaneously underlining how advantageous it might be for their children as a global lingua franca and valuable linguistic capital. Castilian and Catalan are also considered important, although the different profiles demonstrate varying orientations towards Catalan. Differences in the way parents relate global and local language hierarchies are understood to account for this. In terms of FLM strategies, few differences are noted between profiles. Parents enact some strategies themselves, including conscious language choice and literacy support, while they enable others by managing external actors according to their assessments of their children’s overall language input and the opportunities available. External sources of English input include television and digital media, family and friends from the home country, and local networks of playdates with other English-speaking children. When evaluating FLM processes, most parents express considerable satisfaction with their children’s linguistic outcomes so far. Several admit that their initial expectations have been exceeded. Nevertheless, some parents express disappointment: most for their children’s level of English but one for Castilian and Catalan. Interestingly, most dissatisfaction is found in the discourse of TAPs from cluster one. It is hoped that the insights gained from the present thesis will help to contextualise further research on TAPs raising children plurilingually not only in Barcelona but generally; to provide more specific guidance to concerned parents; to shed light on the different language socialisation processes experienced by transnational migrants and to build theory relating to how these inform FLM decision-making processes.
Esta tesis analiza como se gestionan las lenguas en familias con un mínimo de un progenitor anglòfono transnacional (PAT) residente en el ámbito metropolitano de Barcelona. El estudio se centra en las lenguas que utilizan los PATs con sus familiares, sobretodo en las que corresponden a la transmisión lingüística intergeneracional. El estudio combina métodos cuantitativos y cualitativos, y perspectivas macro y micro para considerar las influencias múltiples sobre el uso lingüístico a distintos niveles. Como actors primarios de la gestión lingüística familiar (GLF), se analiza como los progenitores hacen, justifican, implementan y revisan los usos lingüísticos familiares. La primera fase del estudio contextualiza a la segunda mediante una descripción sociodemográfica y sociolingüística de 164 PATs y sus familias. Se utilizan datos cuantitativos de la Encuesta Lingüística Familiar (ELF) que representan 614 individuos (331 progenitores y 283 hijos). Los encuestados tienen un estatus socioeconómico relativamente alto comparado con otras poblaciones de migrantes y son bastante móviles, a menudo por motivos profesionales. Los PATs utilizan mucho el inglés dentro del ámbito familiar, hecho que corresponde con la alta tasa de transmisión intergeneracional tanto cuando se mide según la competencia lingüística como cuando se mide según el uso lingüístico de los hijos. Se generan índices de uso lingüístico familiar para cada tipo de interacción familiar, los cuales se utilizan para el procedimiento de análisis de clúster. Se identifican cuatro perfiles de familia. Los primeros dos clústers son los más grandes: clúster 1 (n=47) representa familias bilingües castellano-inglés y clúster 2 (n=94) representa families monolingües en inglés. El tercer clúster incluye 15 familias trilingües donde los progenitores utilizan castellano entre ellos, pero inglés y catalán con los hijos. El cuarto clúster es el más pequeño y contiene solamente 8 familias bilingües catalán-inglés. La segunda fase implica el análisi cualitativo de datos de entrevista con 26 PATs que representan los diferentes perfiles familiares y los tres rangos de edad de los hijos (0-5, 6-11 y 12-16). Casi todos los progenitores narran procesos de toma de decisiones FLM conscientes y detallan ambiciosos resultados lingüísticos esperados para sus hijos. Muchos esperan que sus hijos adquieran niveles de hablante nativo o cercanos en inglés, castellano y catalán además de competencias en lenguas extranjeras adicionales. Los progenitores dan mucha importancia al inglés. Lo relacionan estrechamente con ideologias de autenticidad e identidad. Al mismo tiempo subrayan las ventajas que puede dar a sus hijos como lengua franca global y capital lingüístico valioso. Se considera que el castellano y el catalán también son importantes, aunque los perfiles diferentes muestran orientaciones variables hacia el catalán. Se consideran relevantes las diferencias entre las formas en que los progenitores explican jerarquias globales y locales. Respecto a las estrategias de GLF, se perciben pocas diferencias entre perfiles. Los progenitores realizan ciertas estrategias ellos mismos, incluyendo la selección consciente de lengua y el apoyo a procesos de alfabetización de sus hijos, mientras habilitan otros mediante la gestión de actores externos según las evaluaciones del input lingüístico global de los hijos. Fuentes externas de input de inglés incluyen la televisión y los medios digitales, la familia y los amigos del país de origen, y redes locales de encuentro con otros niños anglófonos. Cuando evaluan procesos de GLF, la mayoria de los progenitores se muestran muy satisfechos con los resultados lingüísticos demostrados por sus hijos hasta el momento. Muchos admiten que sus expectativas iniciales se han superado. No obstante, algunos progenitores expresan su decepción: más por el nivel de inglés de sus hijos que por el nivel de castellano o catalán. Curiosamente, los progenitores de clúster 1 demuestran mayor insatisfacción. Se espera que los hallazgos de esta tesis contribuirán a la contextualización de más investigación sobre PATs en Barcelona sino en de manera general; a la mejora de los consejos para los progenitores y educadores que estén involucrados en este tipo de familias; a la comprensión de los diferentes procesos de socialización lingüística que viven los migrantes transnacionales; y a la construcción de teoria sobre el papel que tienen respeto a los procesos de toma de decisiones GLF en familias de este tipo.
Aquesta tesi analitza com es gestionen les llengües a famílies amb com a mínim un progenitor anglòfon transnacional (PAT) resident a l’àmbit metropolità de Barcelona. L’estudi es centra en les llengües que els PATs usen amb familiars, sobretot pel que fa a la transmissió lingüística intergeneracional. L’estudi combina mètodes quantitatius i qualitatius, i perspectives macro i micro per considerar les influències múltiples sobre l’ús linguistic a differents nivells. Com a actors primaris de la gestió lingüística familiar (GLF), s’analitza com els progenitors fan, justifican, implementen i revisen els usos lingüístics familiars. La primera fase de l’estudi contextualitza la segona mitjançant una descripció sociodemogràfica i sociolingüística de 164 PATs i les seves famílies. S’hi utilitzen dades quantitatives del qüestionari lingüística familiar (QLF) que representen 614 individus (331 progenitors i 283 fills). Els enquestats tenen un estatus socioeconòmic relativament alt comparat amb altres poblacions de migrants i són força mobils, sovint per motius professionals. Els PATs utilitzen molt d’anglès dins l’àmbit familiar, cosa que correspon amb una taxa alta de transmissió intergeneracional tant quan es mesura segons la competència lingüística com quan es mesura segons l’ús lingüístic dels fills. A l’hora de fer l’anàlisi es generen uns índexs d’ús lingüístic familiar per a cada tipus d’interacció familiar, els quals s’empren per al procediment d’anàlisi de conglomerats. S’identifiquen quatre perfils de família. Els primers dos conglomerats són els més grans: conglomerat 1 (n=47) representa famílies bilingües castellà-anglès i conglomerat 2 (n=94) representa famílies monolingües en anglès. El tercer conglomerat inclou 15 famílies trilingües en què els pares utilitzen castellà entre ells, però anglès i català amb els fills. El quart conglomerat és el més petit i conté només 8 famílies bilingües català-anglès. La segona fase implica l’anàlisi qualitativa de dades d’entrevista amb 26 PATs que representen els diferents perfils familiars i els tres rangs d’edat dels fills (0-5, 6-11 i 12-16). Gairebé tots els progenitors narren processos de presa de decisions GLF conscients i detallen ambiciosos resultats lingüístics esperats per als seus fills. Molts esperen que els seus fills aconsegueixin nivells de parlant nadiu o propers d’anglès, castellà i català a més de competències en llengües estrangeres addicionals. Els progenitors donen molta importància a l’anglès. El relacionen estretament amb ideologies d’autenticitat i identitat. A la vegada subratllen els avantatges que pot donar als seus fills com a llengua franca global i capital linguistic valuós. Es considera que el castellà i el català també són importants, encara que els perfils diferents demostren orientacions variades pel que fa al català. Es consideren rellevants les diferències entre les maneres en que els progenitors expliquen jerarquies globals i locals. Pel que fa a les estratègies de FLM, es noten poques diferències entre perfils. Els progenitors realitzen algunes estratègies ells mateixos, incloent-hi la selecció conscient de llengua i el suport als processos d’alfabetització dels seus fills, mentre n’habiliten d’altres mitjançant la gestió d’actors externs segons les avaluacions de l’input linguistic global dels fills. Fonts externes d’input d’anglès inclouen la television i els mitjans digitals, la família i els amics al país d’origen, i xarxes locals de trobada amb altres nens anglòfons. Quan avaluen processos de GLF, la majoria dels progenitors es mostren molt satisfets amb els resultats lingüístics demostrats pels seus fills fins el moment. Molts admeten que les seves expectatives inicials s’han superat. No obstant, alguns progenitors expressen la seva decepció: més pel nivell d’anglès dels seus fills que pel nivell de castellà o català. Curiosament, els progenitors del conglomerat 1 demostren més insatisfacció. S’espera que les troballes d’aquesta tesi contribuiran a la contextualització de més recerca sobre PATs no sols a Barcelona sinó arreu; a la millora dels consells per als progenitors i educadors involucrats en aquest tipus de famílies; a la comprensió dels diversos processos de socialització lingüística que viuen els migrants transnacionals; i a la construcció de teoria sobre el paper que tenen respecte als processos de presa de decisions GLF en famílies d’aquesta mena.

Summary: Qualitative interviews were conducted to grandmothers and children living in transnational families in the Philippines. The study aims to examine how they experience their life situation and how they find strategies to cope with difficulties that may appear in transnational family life. Findings: The grandmothers experience difficulties with ageing and health problems in their role as caregivers, and the children experience difficulties with new responsibilities such as household chores, taking care of younger siblings and manage school. For both respondents the financial benefits with having a family member working abroad is the most important. Applications: The results are discussed in the context of globalization, transnational families and gender.

Globalisation is increasing and influences the families that emigrate as well as those that stay behind. In South Africa the left behind aged parents of adult children who emigrated experience a sense of helplessness as they feel that they have raised children who abandoned them when they relocated to other parts of the world due to push and pull factors. They also feel that they are missing the experiences of being part of their grandchildren’s lives. Emigration of adult children disrupts the normal functioning of the family for the emigrants as well as those left behind. The reciprocal caring becomes difficult and complicated. The aim of the study was to explore and describe reciprocal transnational caring as it was experienced by aged parents in a selected retirement village in South Africa and their emigrated children. Descriptive phenomenological research was done where scheduled interviews were used with informed consent to obtain data from the 23 selected participants in a retirement village and their emigrated children abroad. Interviews were carefully recorded and transcribed where after the gathered data was used to identify the essence and supporting constituents of the phenomenon. The essence and constituents were thoroughly described and a literature study was done of existing material to integrate the findings of the phenomenon. The findings revealed the essence as “We do love and care, but we can’t touch and hug”, and the supporting constituents: “We are as involved as we can”, “We live a dual life”, “The grandchildren outgrow the grandparents”, “Technology makes it much easier”, “They have a future as ‘world citizens’” and “Financially we are independent” were identified.
Dissertation (MCur)--University of Pretoria, 2018.
Nursing Science
MCur
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The study of the integration of the children of migrants—the so-called ‗second generation‘—is a recent trend in migration literature. Their integration is thought to be an important indicator of the degree of integration of immigrants in general into a specific society. This thesis is the first full-length comparative study of the Albanian second generation. Using a variety of field methods, it compares the ethnic identities, transnational ties and integration pathways of Albanian-origin teenagers in three European cities—London, Thessaloniki and Florence—by focusing on intergenerational transmission between the first and the second generation. Greece, Italy and the UK are, in that order, the three main European countries where Albanian migrants have settled during their short but intense migration experience of the past two decades. My study shifts the focus partly to the situation and developments in Southern Europe, where the awareness and interest in issues of the integration of the second generation are still at an initial phase. The research involved fieldwork in each of the above-named cities, where quota samples of three categories of informants were interviewed: parents, their second-generation teenage children, and teachers and other key informants within the host society. Findings show significant differences in the integration patterns of both generations, affected by sharp differences between the three contexts and the history of immigration in each context. They also point to important within- and inter-group differences, based on various socio-economic indicators. Intergenerational transmission appears as a dynamic process affected not only by context and the parents‘ socio-economic background, but also by parents‘ stage of integration. By studying a settling immigrant group and their descendants, the thesis takes a proactive approach towards the integration of ethnic minorities.

This study investigates the evacuation of 60,000 French and Belgian children to Switzerland between 1940 and 1945. This humanitarian action was initially implemented by a coalition of Swiss charities but because of its growing popularity and increasing scope, the Swiss Red Cross joined the efforts in 1942. Despite the devastation, food scarcities and logistical limitations of the Second World War, these children were successfully fed, clothed and housed in Swiss households for three-month periods before they returned home. Given the massive diplomatic and material challenges, it is surprising that such a large transnational evacuation for vulnerable, foreign children was generally effective. By evaluating both how these evacuations were conducted and why participating governments sought to support or prohibit their implementation, this thesis reveals new information that challenges the standard narratives of the wartime actions of the Allies, Nazi Germany and Switzerland. Britain and America’s role in the evacuation does not support their reputation as righteous victors, but as bickering governments strategizing to strengthen their post-war political position in Europe. Nazi Germany’s authorization of the evacuation deepens our knowledge by demonstrating how “humanitarian” operations were circuitously manipulated as a way to increase Nazi control. The noteworthy hospitality of Swiss citizens significantly diverged from the strict immigration policies imposed by their government, a finding which both challenges and reinforces the controversy surrounding Switzerland’s prohibitive, internationally-condemned refugee policies. Overall, this thesis recasts each participant in a new light by questioning the motivations of governments at war, the value of children in war, and the logistics of wartime humanitarian operations.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, San Diego, 2007.
Title from first page of PDF file (viewed July 18, 2007). Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 196-203).

The purpose of this research is to examine the lived experience of unaccompanied asylum seeking children (UASC) to identify if and how their national and transnational (human)rights and entitlements are actualised. Through an application of the concepts within the civic stratification model the thesis will seek to analyse the position of UASC with respect to the basic obligations that are owed by the state. Until their asylum claim is resolved UASC occupy indeterminate status positions and enter into transitional phases which offer only partial membership and fall short of the provision of some basic rights. It can be a number of years before they receive their status or are removed from the national space as failed asylum seekers. This research study will illustrate that whilst the national space is open to asylum applications and party to (human)rights commitments in reality the process remains tied to the national outlook. This will serve as the rationale for analysis of the lived experiences of UASC through the lens of methodological cosmopolitanism. This will present UASC as an example of what Ulrich Beck (2006) terms the cosmopolitanization of the nation-state. The analysis will use empirical material to theorise the interactions between UASC and state actors which create structuring points of transnational inequalities, the latter being triggered by conflicting actor perspectives. The temporal and spatial dimensions of the lives of UASC will be explored to conclude that transnationalised inequalities that exist inside the transnational space are rooted in the practices of the nation-state. Yet, the latter do not take responsibility for these inequalities but instead distance themselves from them. UASC will be examined as part of a transnational flight society, a group that exhibits fluidity in their existence, but which as autonomous rights holders are changing the structure of the national space from within.

The primary aim of the study was to develop knowledge about how unaccompanied asylum-seeking children manage their life circumstances and challenges after being granted a residence permit and maturing into adulthood in Sweden. A second aim was to develop knowledge about the life circumstances of these children in their respective countries of origin, the motives behind their flight to Sweden, the means by which they came to Sweden.  The thesis is a ten-year follow-up study. The first set of data is clinical in nature: 100 unaccompanied children were interviewed shortly after their arrival. Ten years later a register study was made of these now young adults. The research group was now reduced to the 68 young adults who remained in Sweden after receiving their permanent resident permits. Twenty of them were chosen for a qualitative interview by means of strategic sampling. The unaccompanied asylum-seeking children who, ten years after becoming permanent residents, remained in Sweden have become established in a favourable life situation as young adults. The process of becoming established in Sweden from the stressing conditions in the country of origin is marked by both risks and possibilities that occur in periodical sequences in the life course of the unaccompanied asylum-seeking children.  The children/youths may have come alone, but they did not remain alone. A majority were taken in hand by relatives in Sweden who were links to the family’s transnational network. The other children who had no family with which to reunite sought to establish transnational links on their own. A transnational perspective can shed light on how these young adults have created cross-national networks and this appears to have been of decisive importance for their socialisation and favourable establishment in Sweden.

The Uncanny Child in Transnational Cinema illustrates how global horror film depictions of children re-conceptualised childhood at the turn of the twenty-first century. By analysing an influential body of transnational horror films, largely stemming from Spain, Japan, and the US, Jessica Balanzategui shows how millennial uncanny child characters resist embodying growth and futurity, unravelling concepts to which the child's symbolic function is typically bound. The book proposes that complex cultural and industrial shifts at the turn of the millennium resulted in these potent cinematic renegotiations of the concept of childhood. By demonstrating both the culturally specific and globally resonant properties of these frightening visions of children who refuse to grow up, the book outlines the conceptual and aesthetic mechanisms by which long entrenched ideologies of futurity, national progress, and teleological history started to waver at the turn of the twenty-first century.

The paper presents a topical picture of the intra-EU mobility on the basis of officially published quantitative data. Several social aspects of this type of internal migration are discussed and analyzed, such as: risks for the health, education and socialization of the migrant children; risks for the stability of the migrant families; demographic and social consequences for the EU countries which are reported as the biggest sources of intra-EU mobility. The official statistical data are compared with the results of the authors’ study on socialization deficits for the children from so called “transnational families”, where one or both parent are labor migrants and have left their children to the care of relatives in the country of origin. The comparative results serve as a basis of conclusions about the negative social impact of the intra-EU mobility on the migrant families and especially on their children.

Austrian part of the Austrian-Slovak cross-border region in the hinterland of Bratislava is attractive for life to many Slovaks who have decided to move in here in recent years. The aim of the paper is to present the issue of cross-border residential suburbanization and transnational migration on the example of the Slovak population living in the Austrian border municipality of Kittsee. Through a questionnaire survey, we were trying to find out in which of the two countries (Slovakia and Austria) the respondents most often perform selected activities of everyday life, and what the reasons for and intensity of their trips to Slovakia are. The results of the survey showed that the majority of respondents carry out work activities and participate in cultural and sporting events mainly in Slovakia. On the contrary, in the municipality of residence or other Austrian municipalities, they mainly purchase daily consumer goods and their children attend pre-school and school facilities. The most common reason for traveling to Slovakia among the respondents is visiting family, friends and acquaintances. Based on the results, it is possible to state that in the Austrian-Slovak cross-border region there are tendencies of the phenomenon of transnational migration, in which the inhabitants enjoy the benefits of living in the area near the border.