The general aim of the Centre is to function as a networking, visibility and research hub in the field of transnational families, in the Southeastern-European, Eastern-European and Pan-European space as well as globally. We hold that transnational families are a functional category of families, with its own specificities and rights entitlements. Therefore, they need to be inquired, empowered, their life-world observed and addressed from a multitude of perspectives and in a diversity of intersections, such as: minority status of various kinds including ethnic and non-regular families, children as a vulnerable group, trafficking, divorce, gender, poverty etc.