This study explores Chinese immigrant parents' decision-making processes regarding
childcare arrangements in Spain based on migration status and the availability of kinship …

The Italian welfare state is characterised by a preference for income transfers over transfers
in kind and the marginal role of policies aimed directly at supporting the family. Despite the …

As migrants settle in their destination country, for those who reunited the family or after
childbirth childcare becomes a priority. Most studies on migrants' childcare arrangements …

This paper proposes comparative research on support provided outside the household by
older adults in Europe. In studying social support, the network perspective is widely used …

Childcare is a need that inevitably emerges once migrants establish themselves and their
families in their destination country. However, migrants' use of informal childcare still …

Chinese young women's fertility choices have attracted growing interest in the last years,
however, the effects of women's singleton status and transnational motherhood experience …

This research explores how regional socioeconomic variables affect the perception of social
trust and support networks (PYCC) in Italian regions, and examines the implications for …

Based on a large-scale ethnographic project of 105 semi-structured interviews, this thesis
presents four studies of Chinese migrant family dynamics in Spain from three perspectives …