Understanding the challenges of family migration in contemporary EU mobilities

The project seeks to advance public understanding of and strengthen the policymaking focus on family migration through the case of Italian families migrating to the UK.

It will do so by: 

1. highlighting to a non-academic audience the challenges that they face
2. dispelling myths about EU migrations
3. laying the basis for the development of effective policy strategies to enhance migrants’ wellbeing and their fuller social and economic integration

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Using a mixed-method approach, the project will focus on the specific challenges EU parents and their children encounter in a changing context, as well as on the strategies they employ to navigate settlement, further mobilities and potential returns.

Methods used will be a survey followed by online video-interviews that will result in a research-informed video-documentary, disseminated to a wide-range stakeholders in both Italy and the UK. The video-interviews, and later the documentary, will be based on migrant stories from both parents and children as well as officials working in institutions connected to various aspects of EU migration. 

Adult survey