Handbook of Transnational Families Around the World (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9783031152801)

Dr. Javiera Cienfuegos is Associate Professor at Universidad Academia de Humanismo Cristiano (Chile) and obtained her PhD. in Sociology at Freie Universit舩 Berlin. Her main research areas include family diversity, transnational migration, and social emotions, which converge on the phenomenon of transnational families, an issue which has worked intensively since 2007. Her dissertation was awarded the triannual prize Friedrich Katz of the Latin American Institute of the Free University of Berlin. This work has been published as a book by RIL Publishing House.

Between 2019 and 2021, Dr Cienfuegos was a visiting scholar at the Latin American Institute in the Freie Universit疸 Berlin, conducting post-doctoral research on family processes and labour trajectories of high-skilled migrants, including the countries of Germany and Chile. Her work is available in three different languages as book chapters and double-blind peer-reviewed articles. Recently, Dr Cienfuegos has been editor and co-editor of two books, Special Issues.

Javiera Cienfuegos lectured sociology of migration and emotions, and qualitative and mixed methods of social research at Universidad Alberto Hurtado and Universidad Academia de Humanismo Cristiano. Furthermore, Dr Cienfuegos promotes family diversity through an academic and community visual project called "Familia Glocal" the main objective is to render visible, rescuing quotidian experiences and issues the variety of forms of "doing family".

Rosa Brandhorst is a Senior Lecturer at the Centre on Migration, Citizenship and Development (COMCAD) at the Faculty of Sociology of the University of Bielefeld. From 2017 to 2019, she was a postdoctoral researcher at the Discipline Group of Anthropology and Sociology at the University of Western Australia. Brandhorst's main research areas include sociology of family, migration and social transformation, with a particular focus on transnational families, the organization of transnational care, transnational ageing and transnational support networks. She has lectured on the sociology of migration, transnationalism and qualitative methods of social research at the University of Vienna, the University of Bielefeld, the University of Gtingen and the University Porto Alegre. In the project "Ageing and New Media: A New Analysis of Older Australians' Support Networks" of the University of Western Australia Perth and La Trobe University Melbourne, Brandhorst analyzed the changes in the composition of older migrants' support networks. Furthermore, she conducted multi-sited research on transnational families between Cuba and Germany and their impact on social change in Cuba. Brandhorst has published a book on transnational families between Cuba and Germany and their impact on the social change in Cuba and peer reviewed articles, book chapters and edited Special Issues on migration, transnational families and transnational ageing, as well as on qualitative methods of social research. Her publications are available in English and German.