Book Overview

This book discusses how human wellbeing is constructed and transferred intergenerationally in the context of international migration.

Research Focus

Research on intergenerational transmission (IGT) has tended to focus on material asset transfers prompting calls to balance material asset analysis with that of psychosocial assets – including norms, values, attitudes, and behaviors.

Empirical Research

Drawing on empirical research undertaken with Latin American migrants in London, Katie Wright sets out to redress the balance by examining how far psychosocial transfers may be used as a buffer to mediate the material deprivations that migrants face via adoption of a gender, life course, and human wellbeing perspective.