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

• Main Authors: Hiitola, Johanna, Turtiainen, Kati, Gruber, Sabine, Tiilikainen, Marja
• Format: eBook Book
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Routledge 2020; Taylor and Francis; Taylor & Francis Group
• Edition: 1
• Series: Routledge Studies in Family Sociology
• Subjects: Assimilation (Sociology); aylum seeker; belonging; bordering; bordering practices; borderland; Child and Family Social Work; citizenship; Denmark; ethnic minority; Ethnicity and Culture; everyday lives; family; Finland; Group identity; Gruppidentitet; Immigrant families; Immigrant families-Scandinavia; indigenous Sámi communities; Invandrare; Johanna Hiitola; Kati Turtiainen; Kulturell assimilation; Marja Tiilikainen; migrant; Migration; migration studies; Minoriteter; Minority families; mobiity; Nordic countries; Nordic welfare states; Norway; Parenthood; parenting; parenting practices; parents; refugee; Sabine Gruber; social work; sociology; Sociology & Social Policy; Sociology of the Family; Sweden; Sámi; transition; Finnish Russian Border; Transnational Fatherhood; Transnational Care Arrangements; Transnational Familyhood; Vice Versa; Nordic Welfare States; Norwegian Child Welfare; Blog Texts; Rural Border Areas; Young Men; Common Language; Transnational Father; Transnational Families; Family Reunification Processes; School Home Collaboration; European Border Regime; Finnish Immigration Service; Finnish Welfare State; Cross-border Commuting; Father Son Relationship; Transnational Everyday Life; North Karelia; NCWS; Epistemic Governance; Migrant Parents
• ISBN: 0367111012; 9780367111014; 9781032175331; 1032175338
• DOI: 10.4324/9780429024832

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.