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Der Beitrag analysiert mit Hilfe der Konzeptionalisierung transnationaler Pflege von Baldassar et. al. die transnationalen Pflegepraxen von Migranten aus El Salvador, die in Belgien und Australien leben und für ihre alternden Eltern im Heimatland sorgen. Der Fokus der Untersuchung liegt dabei virtuelle und auf Nähe bezogene Sorgepraxen. Die Analyse basiert auf 44 Lebenslaufinterviews in der Muttersprache der Migranten und weiterer Methoden und Beobachtungen. Der Beitrag erläutert zunächst die Forschungsmethodologie und weist auf einige Aspekte zur Lage in El Salvador hin. Im Anschluss daran präsentiert der Beitrag die vier Fallstudien, anhand derer der Beitrag der Migranten zum Wohlergehen der Eltern dargestellt wird. Analysiert wurden jene Faktoren, die einen Einfluss oder Erleichterung auf die Möglichkeiten der Migranten aus El Salvador ausübten, um aus der großen Distanz für ihre Eltern zu sorgen. Außerdem diskutiert der Beitrag den Einfluss, den der Kontext des Empfängerlandes auf die transnationale Pflegeleistung hat. (ICA2).

AbstractIn this paper, I focus on the transnational care practices of Salvadoran refugees living in Perth (Western Australia) and who care for their ageing parents who have remained in their home country. The analysis is based on a conceptualization of transnational care as a set of capabilities that include, but are not limited to, mobility, social relations, time allocation, education and knowledge, paid work and communication (Merla and Baldassar, 2011). I focus in particular on the impact of Salvadoran refugees' difficult access to, and use of, these capabilities on their capacity to fulfil their culturally defined sense of obligation to care for their ageing parents. Results show that extended transnational kinship networks play a major role in helping migrants overcome obstacles to transnational caregiving.

A research was conducted in Belgium between 2002 and 2006 on ' stay-at-home' fathers. The aim was to understand how these men manage the tension between dominant gender norms and their own behaviour. In this article, the author extends her observations by focusing initially on factors contributing to this approach to paternity based on the responses by ' stay-athome' fathers and thereafter on the personal and inter-personal consequences of investment in this experience which is still widely considered out of norm.

Without denying the difficulties that confront migrants and their distant kin, this volume highlights the agency of family members in transnational processes of care, in an effort to acknowledge the transnational family as an increasingly common family form and to question the predominantly negative conceptualisations of this type of family. It re-conceptualises transnational care as a set of activities that circulates between home and host countries - across generations - and fluctuates over the life course, going beyond a focus on mother-child relationships to include multidirectional exchanges across generations and between genders. It highlights, in particular, how the sense of belonging in transnational families is sustained by the reciprocal, though uneven, exchange of caregiving, which binds members together in intergenerational networks of reciprocity and obligation, love and trust that are simultaneously fraught with tension, contest and relations of unequal power. The chapters that make up this volume cover a rich array of ethnographic case studies including analyses of transnational families who circulate care between developing nations in Africa, Latin America and Asia to wealthier nations in North America, Europe and Australia. There are also examples of intra- and extra- European, Australian and North American migration, which involve the mobility of both the unskilled and working class as well as the skilled middle and aspirational classes.

Objective: This paper investigates the impact of the 2020 Covid-19 related Spring Lockdown in Italy on families practicing shared physical custody (SPC) arrangements for their children. Background: Those family configurations partly challenge the dominant 'mother as main carer model' that characterizes Italian society. Here, we consider the lockdown as a "challenge-trial" to analyze the strategies that these families have developed to cope with lockdown, and to reveal the overarching structures that contributed to shape this experience of lockdown. Method: We draw on semi-structured interviews with 19 parents (9 fathers and 10 mothers), part of 12 families practicing SPC. Results: We propose a typology of custody re-organizations during lockdown and how this affected the division of parental involvement based on a) change/no change in sleepover calendars in favor of mother/father; and b) similar/different arrangements for siblings – a new practice that emerged and also has implications for the division of childcare between parents. Four types are identified where we emphasize new parenting practices and the role played by material housing configurations, relations and tensions between family members, as well as balancing work, school and childcare. Conclusion: We highlight the usefulness of applying a "challenge-trial" lens to the study of family life under lockdown, and the need to complexify research on gender equality in shared parenting and on sibling relationships in post-divorce families.