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Intergenerational relationships in bilingual families

Category: Demography and Society

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Funding: Leverhulme Trust

This ethnographic project explores intergenerational care and cultural transmission among transnational families, by focusing on the Italian migrant community based in South Wales.

Presentations:

  • Bianchera, E., Mann, R., and Harper, S. (2013) ‘Intergenerational Practices and Cultural Transmission within Italian Transnational Families in South Wales’, ESA European Sociological Association Conference, University of Turin, Italy.
  • Bianchera, E., Mann, R., and Harper, S. (2013) ‘Intergenerational relations, transnationalism and cultural transmission among Italian migrants in Wales’. Research on Families, Migration and Ageing Workshop, Social Sciences Institute, University of Leeds.
  • Mann, R., Bianchera, E., and Harper, S. (2012) ‘The role of grandparents within Italian transnational families in South Wales’, British Society of Gerontology Annual Conference, University of Keele.
  • Bianchera, E., Mann, R., and Harper, S. (2012) ‘Intergenerational heritage transmission in Italian migrant families in Wales: the role of grandparents’, Trinity Term Seminar Series, Oxford Institute of Population Ageing, University of Oxford.
  • Bianchera, E., Mann, R., and Harper, S. (2012) 'Intergenerational cultural transmissions within Italian transnational families in South Wales' OPAN Seminar Series, Older People & Ageing Research & Development Network, University of Swansea.
  • Bianchera, E., Mann, R., and Harper, S. (2012) ‘Heritage, culture and intergenerational transmissions within Italian transnational families in South Wales’, Intergenerational Geographies: Spaces, Identities, Relationships, Encounters, School of Geography, University of Leeds.
  • Mann, R. (2012) 'Italian transnational families in South Wales:  Intergenerational Perspectives', Migration, Ethnicity and Identity: Perspectives from the Celtic Nations, Bangor University, Wales.
  • Mann, R., Bianchera, E., and Harper, S. (2010) ‘Intergenerational transmissions in Italian migrant families in Wales: continuities and transformations’, WISERD Annual Knowing Wales: People, Place, Policy, University of Cardiff.
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