Distant Love - Personal Life In The Global Age

This volume examines the various types of long-distance relationships between people from different countries or continents. The authors propose a concept of "world families" to examine the realities of these new types of families, and consider how to describe these developments; how love and families have become the point of intersection for global events; what happens when national frontiers and international legal systems, immigration laws, and the boundaries between host societies and minorities pass through the family; and what the implications for love are if it is at a distance. They describe mixed-nationality relationships, what happens to love when it becomes distant love (both geographically and culturally), how world families need to be understood from a cosmopolitan point of view, migrating for marriage, migrant mothers, why women gain power in world families, transnational families, baby tourism, a model of distant love, and how world families are pioneers of cosmopolitanism. Distributed by Wiley. Annotation c2014 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

Ulrich Beck is one of the world's leading sociologists and social thinkers, well-known for his bestselling book Risk Society. He is Emeritus Professor at the University of Munich and Professor of Sociology at the LSE.

Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim is Visiting Professor at the University of Trondheim. Her previous books include The Normal Chaos of Love (co-authored with Ulrich Beck).