Moving families expatriation, stress and coping - Haour-Knipe, Mary (Routledge, 2001)
Includes bibliographical references and index
Who are they, and why do they move? -- Relation between work and moving -- Decision to move -- What is stressful about moving abroad? -- Stress around the move itself -- Hassles as a threat to feelings of adult competence -- Language -- Comfortable known-ness of things, and what is taken for granted -- Not knowing the rules, threats to identity -- Initial isolation and loneliness: 'Nobody would know if I left for three days' -- Strains on families -- Two careers or one? -- Partners not 'adjusting well' -- 'Duty travel' and strains it may cover -- Different values -- Coping -- Event and meaning, comprehensibility and manageability -- Family sense of coherence -- Coping with the stresses of moving to a new culture -- Giving and receiving social support -- Relationships with extended families -- Social support over long distances -- Support coming from the new place -- Gaining control over social relations -- Mobilising social support -- Social support in Geneva and in 'hardship posts' -- Social support from within the family -- Families operating together -- High family 'co-ordination', meeting people and family separations -- Low family 'co-ordination' and family members in difficulty -- Imbalances of authority, encountering different values -- Effects on children -- School-aged children -- Rounger children -- Adolescents and older children -- Effect of the move: two case studies -- Foster family -- Wood family -- Families two years later -- Coping with issues around two careers -- Phases of adaptation -- Families' reflections on the effects of migration -- Towards explaining the effects of the move on families -- Influence of SOC and of family 'co-ordination' -- Long-term effects? -- Expatriation, stress, coping and families -- Stress and families