Exploring Norms and Family Laws across the Globe

Exploring Norms and Family Laws across the Globe
Author: Melissa L. Breger
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 409
Release: 2022-03-28
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1793618364

Bringing together some of the world’s leading family law scholars, as well as bright and emerging minds in the field of global family law, this book explores the differences and commonalities in the conceptualization and legal treatment of families throughout different legal traditions. Each chapter delves into topics integral to family law jurisprudence and serves as a novel examination into a deep slice of family law. Together, the four parts and sixteen chapters create a melodious and intriguing examination of groundbreaking and cutting-edge areas of law in the realm of the family. The four parts primarily focus upon a major family law topic with the authors examining the laws across jurisdictions, cross-nationally, or in some cases intra-jurisdictionally. It is through this comparative lens that we see how family law concepts are woven into the fabric of overall society around the globe. This book is of interest to family law, international law, sociology, and socio-legal scholars.

Handbook of Transnational Families Around the World

Handbook of Transnational Families Around the World
Author: Javiera Cienfuegos
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2023-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3031152786

This handbook compiles the most up-to-date research on transnational families. It employs a dialogue between classical approaches and cutting-edge directions in transnational family research to identify continuities and changes in terms of socioeconomic disparities and actors, and to analyze coexistence. Further, the volume adopts a twofold global and international comparative perspective. On the one hand, it focuses on different migratory flows around the world and describes their entangled logics; on the other, it is written by an international group of contributors, with a diverse range of professional backgrounds. Their contributions are based on sound empirical research, and explore geographical regions around the world. The handbook presents different thematic perspectives on transnational families, including an analytical focus on gender, global sociodemographic inequalities, power asymmetries, and border- and mobility regimes, as well as the organization of transnational care, transnational fatherhood, ageing, family reunions and return. It also includes a variety of methodological approaches to transnational family research, ranging from ethnography, biographical research, and life-course methods, to multi-sited approaches and quantitative surveys. Investigating an emergent debate, it sheds new light on migratory fluxes, their common and specific determinants, the types of actors involved, and ways to empirically and methodologically approach them. This is a must-read reference for social scientists interested in family research, migration, and gender studies. Chapter 7 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Gender, Agriculture and Agrarian Transformations

Gender, Agriculture and Agrarian Transformations
Author: Carolyn E. Sachs
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 239
Release: 2019-05-15
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 0429763816

This book presents research from across the globe on how gender relationships in agriculture are changing. In many regions of the world, agricultural transformations are occurring through increased commodification, new value-chains, technological innovations introduced by CGIAR and other development interventions, declining viability of small-holder agriculture livelihoods, male out-migration from rural areas, and climate change. This book addresses how these changes involve fluctuations in gendered labour and decision making on farms and in agriculture and, in many places, have resulted in the feminization of agriculture at a time of unprecedented climate change. Chapters uncover both how women successfully innovate and how they remain disadvantaged when compared to men in terms of access to land, labor, capital and markets that would enable them to succeed in agriculture. Building on case studies from Africa, Latin America and Asia, the book interrogates how new agricultural innovations from agricultural research, new technologies and value chains reshape gender relations. Using new methodological approaches and intersectional analyses, this book will be of great interest to students and scholars of agriculture, gender, sustainable development and environmental studies more generally.

Privacy in Context

Privacy in Context
Author: Helen Nissenbaum
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2009-11-24
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0804772894

Privacy is one of the most urgent issues associated with information technology and digital media. This book claims that what people really care about when they complain and protest that privacy has been violated is not the act of sharing information itself—most people understand that this is crucial to social life —but the inappropriate, improper sharing of information. Arguing that privacy concerns should not be limited solely to concern about control over personal information, Helen Nissenbaum counters that information ought to be distributed and protected according to norms governing distinct social contexts—whether it be workplace, health care, schools, or among family and friends. She warns that basic distinctions between public and private, informing many current privacy policies, in fact obscure more than they clarify. In truth, contemporary information systems should alarm us only when they function without regard for social norms and values, and thereby weaken the fabric of social life.

Introduction to American Law

Introduction to American Law
Author: St. Clements University - Türkiye
Publisher: Prof. Dr. Bilal Semih Bozdemir
Total Pages: 535
Release:
Genre: Law
ISBN:

Introduction to American Law Overview of the U.S. Legal System Branches of Government and Separation of Powers The U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights Administrative Law and Federal Agencies Civil Procedure and the Court System Criminal Law and the Criminal Justice Process Contract Law and Business Transactions Tort Law and Personal Injury Property Law and Real Estate Intellectual Property Law Family Law and Domestic Relations Immigration and Citizenship Law Conclusion and Key Takeaways

Nation and Family

Nation and Family
Author: Narendra Subramanian
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 398
Release: 2014-04-09
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0804790906

The distinct personal laws that govern the major religious groups are a major aspect of Indian multiculturalism and secularism, and support specific gendered rights in family life. Nation and Family is the most comprehensive study to date of the public discourses, processes of social mobilization, legislation and case law that formed India's three major personal law systems, which govern Hindus, Muslims, and Christians. It for the first time systematically compares Indian experiences to those in a wide range of other countries that inherited personal laws specific to religious group, sect, or ethnic group. The book shows why India's postcolonial policy-makers changed the personal laws they inherited less than the rulers of Turkey and Tunisia, but far more than those of Algeria, Syria and Lebanon, and increased women's rights for the most part, contrary to the trend in Pakistan, Iran, Sudan and Nigeria since the 1970s. Subramanian demonstrates that discourses of community and features of state-society relations shape the course of personal law. Ruling elites' discourses about the nation, its cultural groups and its traditions interact with the state-society relations that regimes inherit and the projects of regimes to change their relations with society. These interactions influence the pattern of multiculturalism, the place of religion in public policy and public life, and the forms of regulation of family life. The book shows how the greater engagement of political elites with initiatives among the Hindu majority and the predominant place they gave Hindu motifs in discourses about the nation shaped Indian multiculturalism and secularism, contrary to current understandings. In exploring the significant role of communitarian discourses in shaping state-society relations and public policy, it takes "state-in-society" approaches to comparative politics, political sociology, and legal studies in new directions.

Families Across Frontiers

Families Across Frontiers
Author: Nigel Vaughan Lowe
Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Total Pages: 902
Release: 1996-11-20
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9789041102393

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Choosing Not to Choose

Choosing Not to Choose
Author: Mehdi Aardin
Publisher: Mehdi Aardin
Total Pages: 81
Release:
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN:

Navigating the intricate tapestry of life often comes with the weight of societal expectations. One such expectation is parenthood, an experience revered and often taken as a given. Yet, for many, the decision remains intensely personal and complex. "Choosing Not to Choose" delves into this pivotal life choice, unraveling its layers, challenges, and joys. Author [Your Name] offers a candid exploration into the world of those who opt out of parenthood. Venturing beyond societal pressures and misconceptions, this book dives into the ethical, economic, emotional, and environmental dimensions of choosing to remain child-free. Blending personal stories with a rich tapestry of global narratives, it offers an expansive view on the diverse motivations and cultural considerations underpinning this choice. Additionally, it doesn't shy away from shedding light on pressing issues like child protection and the need for a more conscious approach to parenthood. At its essence, "Choosing Not to Choose" stands as a testament to the power of self-determination. It is a compelling invitation for readers to introspect, champion their individual choices, and embrace the freedom that comes from forging one's unique path in life.

The Cambridge Companion to Comparative Family Law

The Cambridge Companion to Comparative Family Law
Author: Shazia Choudhry
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 303
Release: 2019-01-31
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1107167531

Offers a comprehensive overview of the key issues facing family law globally, and explores how different countries have tackled them.

House Rules

House Rules
Author: Erez Aloni
Publisher: UBC Press
Total Pages: 381
Release: 2022-06-15
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0774867426

The paradigm of family has shifted rapidly and dramatically, from nuclear unit to diverse constellations of intimacy. At the same time, some norms resist change, such as women’s continuing role as primary care providers despite their increased uptake of paid work. This tension between transformation and stasis in family arrangements has an impact on economic, emotional, and legal aspects of daily life. House Rules critically explores the intertwining of norms and laws that govern familial relationships. The authors in this incisive collection engage with four countries – Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Taiwan – and expose the ingrained and unsettled norms that affect families and the law’s role in regulating them. Over recent decades, the law has struggled to adjust to transformations in what typifies the structures and practices of family life. House Rules provides tools to analyze those difficulties and, ultimately, to design laws to better respond to ongoing change and avoid entrenching inequalities.