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This article compares the pre-migration and post-migration socialization practices of Moroccan families in The Netherlands. Our main theoretical interest is in continuity and change in the reconstruction of socialization practices in new contexts and how the nature of this reconstruction can be understood. The article addresses social organization in general, the social organization of the family, values and goals related to upbringing and practices of upbringing. The findings indicate a changed power balance in the family, a diminishing distance between parents and children, and a more egalitarian style of parenting. These changes are interpreted against the idea of the 'loss of locality' and the reproduction of old practices in new contexts in which cultural differences do not count 'as such'but become the input for a complex process in which both local and more global developments, both resistance to change and attempts to adapt constantly interact.

Not accepted by the family: 'being difficult' or 'being different'? .Using data from the Netherlands Kinship Panel Study (NKPS) and combining a quantitative and a qualitative approach (N = 7.151 and n = 43, respectively), this study investigates the mechanisms
underlying a lack of acceptance by one's family. From the total NKPS-sample 12,1 per cent did not feel (entirely) accepted by their family. Theoretical assumptions were that people may not feel accepted by their family because they are 'difficult', e.g. by exhibiting personal
problems; another reason might be that they are 'different', for instance because they have made non-traditional life course transitions or differ from their parents in educational level or religious preference. Both quantitative and qualitative results confirm the first assumption
rather than the second. Qualitative results revealed a gender difference in the mechanisms involved in a lack of acceptance by one's family.