Full Description
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 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.
Contents
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
