This book examines the needs, aspirations, strategies, and challenges of transnational Muslim migrants in Europe with regard to family practices such as marriage, divorce and parenting.

Marja Tiilikainen (PhD, Docent) is Senior Researcher at the Migration Institute of Finland.

Mulki Al-Sharmani (PhD, Docent) is Senior Lecturer of Islamic Theology at the Faculty of Theology, Study of Religions Unit, University of Helsinki, Finland. She is the author of Gender Justice and Legal Reform in Egypt: Negotiating Muslim Family Law; the editor of Feminist Activism, Women's Rights and Legal Reform; and the co-editor of Men in Charge? Rethinking Authority in Muslim Legal Tradition.

Sanna Mustasaari is a postdoctoral researcher at the Faculty of Law, University of Helsinki, Finland.

1. Introduction: Wellbeing, Family Life, and Transnational Muslims in the West 2. Converts, Marriage, and the Dutch Nation-state: Contestations about Muslim Women's Wellbeing 3. Wellbeing, Law and Marriage: Recognition of Nik¿h in Multicultural Britain and the Finnish Welfare State 4. A Mosque Programme for the Wellbeing of Muslim Families 5. Polygamy, Wellbeing and Ill-being amongst Ethnic Muslim Minorities 6. Transnational Families Navigating the Law: Marriage, Divorce and Wellbeing 7. Somali Parents in Sweden: Navigating Parenting and Child Wellbeing 8. Transnational Finnish-Somali Families and Children's Wellbeing 9. Raising Children of Somali Descent in Toronto: Challenges and Struggles for Everyday Security and Wellbeing 10. Childhood, Wellbeing and Transnational Migrant Families: Conceptual and Methodological Issues