Introduction

The volume is divided into three thematic sections amounting to eight research articles. The papers represent a wide range of research in the approaches to ‘doing family’ and studying transnational issues. The first section, "Transnational Caring", covers a range of topics related to the category of "care" in the realm of paid work and child-care arrangements (Ramasawmy, The Impact of Migration on Paid Work and Child-Care Arrangements among Polish Migrant Parents in Scotland), care deficits, gendered trap and female mobility (Slany, Ślusarczyk, In a Decision Trap - Debates Around Caring and Care Provisions in Transnational Families. The Ukrainian Case), intergenerational care obligations (Barglowski, The Normativity of Migration and Intergenerational Care in the Polish-German Transnational Social Space), and transnational practices and identifications (Bell, Erdal, Limited but Enduring Transnational Ties? Transnational Family Life among Polish Migrants in Norway).The second section on ‘Virtual Families’ comprises articles addressing the topic of doing transnational families through virtual space and new technologies (Pustułka, Virtual Transnationalism: Polish Migrant Families and New Technologies; Kniejska, Between Virtual Intimacy and Transfer of Family Members to the Workplace: Strategies of Migrant Care Workers to Deal with the Temporary Separation from their Families in Poland). These themes bring us to the last section entitled "Young Migrants and Family Practices", which sheds light on lives of young migrants in the UK (Heath, McGhee, Trevena, Continuity versus Innovation: Young Polish Migrants and Practices of ‘Doing Family’ in the Context of Achieving Independence in the UK) and experiences of child-migrants in Norway (Slany, Strzemecka, Gender Roles and Practices in Polish Migration Families in Norway through the Eyes of Children). Again, the themes of transnational kinship and family practices and their significance for relationships take centre stage. Throughout the volume, the entanglements of "doing family" on the one hand, and a transnational setting, on the other, should be seen as a key axis guiding all sections