5th ISA Forum of Sociology (6-11 July 2025)

Migrants make and live in diversified forms of family life, which reflects migration patterns, their migration status, national migration policies and migrant's strategies in response to the policies. Family separation during temporary migration often results in changes in the roles and responsibilities of family members, affecting parenthood as breadwinner or caregiver and parent-child relationship. Single-parenting migrants often develop trans-national care-giving strategies, which may also affect the migrant children's sense of belonging. This session examines diversified trends of family life in the context of international migration and explores their theoretical implications.

Part 1. East Asian context

Long Distance Fatherhood: Filipino & Vietnamese Guest-Worker Fathers in South Korea / Dong-Hoon Seol, and Rowena P. de Guzman, Jeonbuk National University, Korea

Vulnerability and Precarity of Single Pareting: Cases of Migrant Wormen In South Korea / Chulhyo Kim, Gyeongsang National University, Korea

Muslim Migrants' Intimacy in South Korea / Joowon Yuk, Kyungpook National University, Korea

Japan Case / Emiko Ochiai, Kyoto University, Japan (To Be Contacted)

Taiwan Case / Yen-Fen Tseng, National Taiwan University, Taiwan (To Be Contacted)

+ Call for papers will be open

Part 2. Global context

Call for papers will be open