Family Relations, Marriage and Children

Newly arrived migrants face various legal and administrative matters when seeking to unify with their family members, access host societies’ health systems or integrate their children into schools and kindergartens. To support practitioners with evidence and the latest development concerning family and marriage migration policies, we have reviewed both academic and policy-oriented research since 2011.

Learn about the common policy approaches supporting and limiting migrant families’ integration and effective measures that you can employ in practice by checking out the Results of our study!

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Brief for Family Relations:

A snapshot of research findings on the most pressing issues migrants face regarding their family lives, parenting and children and policy practices addressing those.

Here you can find evidence-based, effective recommendations that governments or NGOs can apply. To dive into the details, see the full Report summarising Evidence in the area of family, marriage and children’s integration for the past decade.

Featured studies:

Lowering Welfare Benefits: Intended and Unintended Consequences for Migrants and their Families

By focusing on the developments of the Danish welfare reforms targeting arrived migrants, this paper shows that lower benefits can have a negative imapct and result in women withdrawing from the labour market. Also such governmental measures have a negative impact on children’s attendance in preschools and care facilities as well as youth crime rates; it means they had an opposite effect from what it was initially intended: facilitating employment and self-sufficiency...

Best practices: intercultural integration of Arabic refugees in Berlin

Informational media are more effective if disseminated in the beneficiaries’ mother tongues. This paper presents the work of a Berlin-based NGO (ANE) employing such approach. Reaching migrant and refugee families is central to their program, including a Parents Newsletter published in 15 languages. The motto “with parent – for parents” is a key element of the activities, as they consider parents to be “experts” when it comes to their children...

Experiences of Life and Intersectionality of Transgender Refugees Living in Italy: A Qualitative Approach

This article stresses the importance of intersectionality for understanding minority groups’ needs. Research among the LGBTIQ+ population in Italy shows that for transgender refugees, it is even more challenging to find employment, housing or medical care having to cope with gender-expression based discrimination and hostility. Also, most of the support came from grassroots organisations, which limited the success of the integration process...

Find selected research on Family Relations on The Migration Research Hub

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Where is the evidence?

Here you can see how much evidence on Family Relations is available in each country (from the Migration Research Hub).

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