Katharine Charsley - Marriage Migration and Integration

The Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life series is impressive and contemporary in its themes and approaches

Professor Deborah Chambers, Newcastle University, UK, and author ofNew Social Ties.

The remit of the Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life series is to publish major texts, monographs and edited collections focusing broadly on the sociological exploration of intimate relationships and family organization. The series covers a wide range of topics such as partnership, marriage, parenting, domestic arrangements, kinship, demographic change, intergenerational ties, life course transitions, step-families, gay and lesbian relationships, lone-parent households, and also non-familial intimate relationships such as friendships and includes works by leading figures in the field, in the UK and internationally, and aims to contribute to continue publishing influential and prize-winning research.

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There are many people to thank for their input and assistance in making this research, and this book, possible. First, of course, our participantsour sincere thanks is due to all those who generously gave their time to tell us about their experiences and opinions. Choosing which quotations and vignettes to use was a difficult task amid so much interesting materialwe hope we have done justice to your accounts, your valuable insights and your memorable turns of phrase.

Several organisations provided invaluable assistance during the qualitative fieldwork: QED Foundation, Dhek Bhal, Roshni Ghar, Khaas, and Awaz Utaoh. We thank Nona Kaur and Davinder Singh for their generosity. We are also grateful to the members of the Marriage Migration and Integration Local and National Stakeholder Workshops, and the participants at the projects academic workshop in Oxford. Kaveri Qureshi, Therese OToole and the series editors provided valuable feedback on various stages of the project report and this book manuscript. Zahra Sabri provided Urdu translation of fieldwork material.

We are also grateful to our funders. This work was supported by the Economic and Social Research Council [Grant Number ES/K006495/1] and a University Research Fellowship from the University of Bristol.

Working on this project was made all the more fruitful and enjoyable thanks to a supportive, flexible and inspiring research team. Special thanks are due to Hiranthi Jayaweera who was with the project from the outset. Melanie Griffiths, Harpreet Kaur and Jatinder Kang carried out crucial work at crucial times for the project.