Working Groups

This working group analyses whether existing policies at local, regional, national, European and international levels, and welfare and health services effectively address the needs of Transnational Families. It therefore links the results and objectives of the WGs and assist the WGs in systematically compiling, consolidating and further developing insights and findings from research and through […]

Working Group 5 explores and elucidates methodological challenges for research on transnational families and provides solutions for the paucity of inadequate definitions, data sources and data comparability in research on transnational families generally. We examine the significance of qualitative approaches (including participatory, narrative, biographical and visual methods) in research on transnational families and underline the

Working group 4 focuses on the particular way in which Transnational Families handle medical and welfare-related decisions and practices (i.e., the complementary use of health systems in different countries). This has been further sharpened by the Covid-19 pandemic. During the past global health crisis governments and health authorities needed to reach out to Transnational Families

Working Group 2 focuses on psychosocial care and vulnerability prevention policies for Transnational Families children and adolescents. These are often neglected in both research and practice. Without sensitivity to the vulnerabilities and potential of children and adolescents in Transnational Families , the risk is too great that their needs will continue to be overlooked. WG2