Family Life in Transition: Borders, Transnational Mobility, and Welfare Society in Nordic Countries

ISBN-13: 9781032175331 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 216 str.

Johanna Hiitola; Kati Turtiainen; Sabine Gruber

Opis

This volume examines the ways in which bordering practices influence the everyday lives of racialized minority parents in the changing welfare states of Finland, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: The Changing Welfare State  2. Decoupling Spheres of Belonging in the Nordic Welfare States  Part 1: Welfare State and Services  3. Guiding Migrant Parents in Nordic Welfare States – Cases from Norway and Sweden  4. Urban Sámi Families in Finland – Crossing Borders with Languages  5. Migrant Families, Integration, and Borders in the Swedish Foster Care Service  6. Lithuanian Families in Norway and their Fear of the Child Protection Agency  7. Representations of Mothering of Migrant Finns  Part 2: Transnational Families  8. Transnational Commuting of Estonian Men in Two Generations  9. The Role of Trust and Reciprocity in Transnational Care Towards Children  10. Everyday Transnational Russian–Finnish Family Relations in a Finnish Rural Border Area  11. Temporality and Everyday (In)Security in the Lives of Separated Refugee Families  Part 3: Enacting Citizenship and Respectable Parenthood  12. Finnish Somali Fathers, Respectability, and Transnational Family Life  13. Migrant Parents Enacting Citizenship in School–Home Collaboration  14. Khanevadehye Mohtaram: Iranian Migrant Parents Struggling for Respectability  15. Newcomer Mothering, Techniques of Citizenship, and Ambiguous Incorporation Regimes  16. Small Agency and Precarious Residency in Afghan Refugee Families

O autorze

Johanna Hiitola is a Senior Lecturer in Social Work at Tampere University, Finland.

Kati Turtiainen is Senior Lecturer at the Kokkola University Consortium Chydenius, University of Jyväskylä, Finland, and the author of Possibilities of Trust and Recognition between Refugees and Authorities: Resettlement as a Part of Durable Solutions of Forced Migration.

Sabine Gruber is Lecturer in Social Work at Linköping University, Sweden.

Marja Tiilikainen is Senior Researcher at the Migration Institute of Finland and co-editor of Wellbeing of Transnational Muslim Families: Marriage, Law and Gender.