Family life in transition : borders, transnational mobility, and welfare society in Nordic countries / edited by Johanna Hiitola, Kati Turtiainen, Sabine Gruber, and Marja Tiilikainen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hiitola, Johanna, editor.

Series:

Routledge studies in family sociology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Immigrant families--Scandinavia.

Immigrant families.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (217 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.

Summary:

"This volume examines the ways in which bordering practices influence the everyday lives of racialized parents in the changing welfare states of Finland, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. Focusing on the need to negotiate, adjust, and reconcile of family life, parenthood and parenting practices in the face of national, material, ideological, cultural, religious, and moral borders, it considers the manner in which these processes are complicated by recent changes in the legitimation of Nordic welfare states. The case studies centre on migrant, refugee, and asylum seeker parents, as well as parents of the indigenous Sámi communities. The book considers the ways in which the welfare state and its services construct borders of respectable parenthood, and examines the efforts on the part of racialized parents to negotiate such borders and organize their transnational everyday lives. Uncovering possibilities and obstacles that exist for families seeking to enact citizenship in the Nordic welfare states, Family Life in Transition will appeal to social scientists with interests in the sociology of the family, children, parenting, and the welfare state"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

Contributors

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1 Introduction: The changing welfare state

Introduction: the changing welfare state

Aim and rationale for the book

Changing parenthood and family life in Nordic welfare states

Methodologies and ethics

The structure of the book

References

Chapter 2 Decoupling spheres of belonging in the Nordic welfare states

Introduction

Epistemic governance and the question of belonging

The three major spheres of belonging in nation-states

Reweaving the fabric?

Part I Welfare state and services

Chapter 3 Guiding migrant parents in Nordic welfare states - cases from Norway and Sweden

Three parenting programmes targeting migrant families

Analytical strategies

Why are migrant families targeted?

What kind of transition do the programmes promote?

How are transitions expected to be achieved?

Guiding or governing migrant parents?

Conclusion

Notes

Chapter 4 Urban Sámi families in Finland - crossing borders with languages

Sámi migration to urban areas

Community-based gulahallan as a method

Sámi languages outside the traditional Sámi homeland

Organizing everyday life in urban areas

Welfare services supporting urban Sámi families

Discrimination outside the traditional Sámi homeland

Chapter 5 Migrant families, integration, and borders in the Swedish foster care service

Foster care framed by integration policy and welfare nationalism

Ethnicity ignored?

To be like a Swedish family

Chapter 6 Lithuanian families in Norway and their fear of the Child Protection Agency

Interventions from the NCWS.

Participants and interviews

An atmosphere of fear

Constructing respectable parenthood

Discussion and conclusion

Note

Chapter 7 Representations of mothering of migrant Finns

In search of representations in blog texts

Parenthood on the societal level

Parental decision-making

Division of labour

Part II Transnational families

Chapter 8 Transnational commuting of Estonian men in two generations

Theoretical debate

Continuing mobility patterns between Estonia and Finland

Fieldwork and participants

Two generations of commuters and network migration

Chapter 9 The role of trust and reciprocity in transnational care towards children

Theorizing transnational care in relation to trust and reciprocity

Methodology

Plurality of care triangles and trust building in transnational families

Chapter 10 Everyday transnational Russian-Finnish family relations in a Finnish rural border area

Russian immigrant families in rural border areas

Methodology - everyday border ethnography from the family perspective

Transnational intergenerational care obligations and opportunities

Ambivalence of transnational parenthood

Chapter 11 Temporality and everyday (in)security in the lives of separated refugee families

Insecure futures and family reunion

Administrative violence and transnational families

Part III Enacting citizenship and respectable parenthood

Chapter 12 Finnish Somali fathers, respectability, and transnational family life

Transnational family life

Changes in the role of a father.

Respectable fathers in transnational space

Linking the past with the future of children

Chapter 13 Migrant parents enacting citizenship in school-home collaboration

Enacting citizenship through respectable parenting

Intervention-based ethnography

Respectable parenting - ideals, expectations and boundary drawing

Identifying problems

Enabling empathy and new positions

Conditions for inclusive and equal collaboration

Chapter 14 Khanevadehye mohtaram: Iranian migrant parents struggling for respectability

Intersectionality and respectability

Observing Iranian parents

Fathers - the loss of respectability

Mothers - building respectability through caring

Chapter 15 Newcomer mothering, techniques of citizenship, and ambiguous incorporation regimes

Newcomer mothering and the complexities of citizenization

Claiming moral space as future citizens through techniques of mothering and the self

Chapter 16 Small agency and precarious residency in Afghan refugee families

Ethnographic fieldwork with vulnerable subjects

Daughters enduring alone

Enduring as an ethical agency

Unforeseen consequences of enduring

Epilogue

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-429-65611-4

0-429-02483-5

0-429-65855-9

9780429024832

OCLC:

1125275243