This research project aims to examine the dynamics of interaction and reciprocal dependence structures among Turkish family members who have settled in Duisburg. The central research question is determined by the development of intergenerational lebenswelt, or “lifeworld,” contexts and the transitions throughout the lives of Turkish settlers and future generations.

The exploration of transition procedures are based on biographic narrative interviews with family members. The data will be interpreted following Rosenthal’s method of analysis, which deduces the experienced and narrated biography and outlines a complex understanding of a person. This biographical procedure initiates conclusions about normative notions of social structure and knowledge order as well as construction of meaning and cultural formation.

The evaluation of the data thus far explores indications to applicable intergenerational transition. This can be reconstructed by the development of socio-economic advancement from first generation and second-generation Turkish immigrants in Germany.

Based on empirical qualitative research analysis the study derives more information about the Turkish family and living in Germany. Furthermore it offers possible explanations how families can be supported.

This paper foregounds visibly ethnically different families (Phoenix, 2011) in Denmark These comprise both.families with parents from two different countries (India and Denmark) and families with transnational adoptees (South Korea). The former are barely scientifically explored due to the dominant colorblindness discourse, while later comprise a heated topic challenging poor (global south) adoptee meeting a loving Danish family’ discourse.

How do these family members narrate their experiences of societal encounter is the research question, which is answered through two qualitative interview studies of intermarried persons N =14, (Singla, 2015) and transnational adoptees N= 35 (Myong, 2011). respectively.The narratives are analysed for the meaning making processes within theoretical frameworks comprising of intersectionality combined with everyday life approach in the former and poststructuralism in the latter.

The results indicate both the possibilities and the limitations involved, highlighting the internal - intersubjective experiences, and the external aspects - the structural factors, other(s) gaze towards the visible differences. Furthermore some parental experiences in transmitting racial literacy- identifying racism as a serious problem and preparing children to cope are seen. For the transnational adoptees, inclusion as Danish implies exclusion from categories such as Korean. Also anxiety from the adoptive family regarding exclusion/alienation entails ambivalences and paradoxes.

Alongside colorblindness, limited/ missing racialisation discussions, the visible bodies of spouses, children in the mixed families and the transnational adoptees are made salient in their everyday lives in interactions with the white majority population through experiences as gaze, curious questions concerning the ethnic origin or direct exclusions.

Post-enlargement labour migration within the EU boosted research interests regarding the changing family relations within the 'borderless Europe', especially with regard to the impact of migration on parenting and children. This article seeks to explore how care-arrangements of migrating parents and parents who stay behind are configured by institutional contexts in both sending and receiving countries. The target group of the research is parents who migrated from Poland, Romania and Latvia their countries’ accession to the EU and work in the lower-paid sectors of the Swedish labour market. Study participants were recruited in Sweden for qualitative interviews using a range of different sites, including NGO and trade union organisations, formal and personal networks, as well as snowballing. Drawing on Kilkey & Merlas' analytical approach to families' care-giving arrangements as being situated in a particular institutional context, the article argues that the rights to welfare and family life in Sweden are conditional and highly stratified according to the working migrant residence and employment statuses. The analysis highlights the complex implications that the Swedish and homes countries national policies have on migrants’ personal experiences of parenting across the borders through the following questions: How do motivation for migration and its temporary character change over time? What are the ambivalences in providing care across the borders? What is the role of informal networks in mitigating the institutional constrains? What motivates migrants to reunite with their children and/or partners in Sweden or to continue living apart as a transnational family?