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- Moberg, Christina, et al.
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De unga gör helt rätt när de stämmer staten
- 2022
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Ingår i: Aftonbladet. - 1103-9000.
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Tidskriftsartikel (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- 1 620 forskare och lärare i forskarvärlden: Vi ställer oss bakom Auroras klimatkrav
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- Alenius Wallin, Linn
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Bonusbarnbarn och deras mor- och farföräldrar
- 2022
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Sedan 70-talet har antalet separationer i Sverige ökat med många ombildade familjer till följd. Människor i alla åldrar möter nya partners vilket ofta innebär att också den nya partnerns familjerelationer blir del av ens liv och skapar komplexa familjerelationer i flera led. Nästan hälften av alla frånskilda svenskar är idag i åldrarna 60+ och många av dem lever i, eller har någon gång levt i, ombildade familjer under sitt liv (Bildtgård & Öberg 2014). Detta innebär att sannolikheten för att få bonusbarn ökar i ett livsloppsperspektiv. I detta avhandlingsprojekt undersöker jag hur barn och äldre gör omsorg mellan generationer i familjer där familjemedlemmarna inte är biologiskt släkt: Vad har bonusrelationerna mellan bonusbarnbarn och deras bonusmor/farföräldrar för betydelser i deras vardag och ur ett livsperspektiv?Forskningen bygger på djupintervjuer med 11 bonusbarnbarn, 5-19 år och 11 bonusmor/farföräldrar i åldrarna 65-83. Även andra metoder så som ”rita din dag”, närhetscirklar och dagboksanteckningar har använts. Teoretiskt utgår jag bland annat från David Morgans (2011) teori om ”doing family” och Carol Smarts (2007) ”personal life” teori. Att vara bonusfar/morförälder eller bonusbarnbarn kan vara alltifrån en relation där personerna knappt (eller aldrig) träffas till att de är väldigt involverade i varandras liv. Bonusrelationer varierar stort när det gäller faktorer som engagemang, intresse, krav, beroende, omsorgsgivande och omsorgstagande. Synen på bonusrelationen tycks skilja sig åt mellan barnbarnsgenerationen och den äldre generationen. Där faktorer som rättvisa, samhörighet, kön, klass, ålder och mellangenerationens (det vill säga föräldrarnas) inblandning sätter ramar kring bonusrelationen. Relationen mellan bonusbarnbarnen och bonusmor/farföräldern kan ses som en vald, men samtidigt villkorad relation. I den här studien visar de olika intervjupersonernas narrativ ett flertal olika sätt att göra bonusrelationer på och blottlägger normer och ideal kring omsorg och interventioner mellan generationer, både vad det gäller bonus- och biologiska släktskap. Informanternas berättelser visar på möjligheter och begränsningar som finns i bonusrelationerna, och hur olika betydelser dessa relationer får för de inblandade. Men berättelserna visar även på skörhet och svårigheter i komplexa släktskaps relationer - när det gäller bonusrelationer men också mellan personer som är biologiskt släkt.
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- Alenius Wallin, Linn
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Family display and recognition in bonus relations
- 2023
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Bonus relations (such as step-grandparents, step-grandchildren, and families of choice) can be chosen, or they can be forced up on you, they can be regarded as very important to extremely peripheral. Bonus relations negotiate familiarity and can vary from inclusion to exclusion. Common to bonus-relations are their non-biological aspect: they are not blood-line relations, and to many families and family types there has been (or is) a struggle for recognition and lack of societal support. To be recognized as ‘family’ is an activity that takes place on several and related levels in bonus relations: on a societal level, in family practices, as well as intersubjectively. For instance, a grandchild of a partner can regard the partner as their (bonus)grandmother, but it is not evident that the partner takes that role up on herself. Departing from Janet Finch’s (2009) concept of family display, which I put in conversation with theorizing on recognition (Heidegren, 2009; Honneth, 2003; Oppenheimer 2006; Voswinkel, 2000), I explore negotiations around recognition within bonus/stepfamily. The paper departs from an interview study on intergenerational care in Sweden, using creative methods such as drawings and diaries with 13 bonus/stepgrandparents and 12 bonus/stepgrandchildren. I focus specifically on processes of recognitions in negotiations around care, inheritance, and ‘fairness’.
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- Alenius Wallin, Linn, et al.
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Intensive grandparenting : Narratives of changing generational practices and relations.
- 2023
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Grandparents’ involvement in their adult children’s everyday family life seems to have increased, especially in relation to care arrangements around grandchildren (Arber & Timonen 2012; May et al., 2012; Cantillon et al., 2021). This is the case also in Sweden, despite extensive public welfare provision of childcare (Hank & Buber, 2009; Björnberg & Ekbrand, 2008). This “new army of proxy parents” (Buchanan & Rotkirch 2019: 11) calls for the need to critically analyse grandparental care practices and ideals, in relation to demands on family life and parenting, and also, in relation to ideal of what is ‘good care’ for children. Taking our point of departure in a study on intergenerational care in Sweden – involving grandparents, adult children and grandchildren (65 interviewees, using creative methods; drawings, diaries) – our analysis suggests the concept intensive grandparenting as an analytical lens for understanding contemporary grandparental involvement in care for grandchildren. Like intensive parenting/mothering (Hays 1996; Lareau 2003; Faircloth 2014), grandparenting today can be characterized as child-centred, emotionally absorbing, financially expensive and labour intensive (Hays 1996), and also as an ambivalent (Luescher & Pillemer 1998) and continuously gendered activity. In addition, it is largely done in the shadows of – and in complex relation to – parenting. Our analysis shows the need to view parenting and grandparenting practices as embedded in wider social contexts, both in relation to the changing welfare state and demands of work-family life, and in relation to changing ideals of care for children and relations between generations.
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- Alenius Wallin, Linn
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Kvinnors och mäns bonusförföräldraskap
- 2024
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Ett ökande omsorgsgivande från förföräldrar till barnbarn är en signifikant utveckling i Sverige (Bordone et al, 2023; Cantillon et al., 2021) en annan utveckling är att allt fler äldre har bonusbarnbarn, till följd av att de eller deras barn lever i ombildade familjer (Bildtgård & Öberg, 2017). Det intensiva förföräldraskapet utmärks av att bio-förföräldrar idag gör, och förväntas göra, mer omsorg om sina vuxna barn och barnbarn än tidigare generationer (Anving et al forthcoming). Förföräldrar steppar in och hjälper till i sina vuxna barns familjer genom att materiellt, praktiskt och känslomässigt bidra till barnbarnens välmåga under deras uppväxt. Men vad innebär detta intensiva förföräldrande i ett bonusförförälder-perspektiv? Utifrån intervjuer med 13 bonusförföräldrar och 13 bonusbarnbarn undersöker jag vad idealet om intensivt förföräldrande tar sig för uttryck i bonusrelationer. Positionen som bonusförförälder omgärdas av särskilda premisser. Till exempel synliggörs en idé om att ett biologiskt släktband anses föra med sig högre krav på att bidra, än det sociala släktskapet som bonusförförälder. En annan premiss är att bonusförförälderns position i förhållande till mellan-generationen innehåller större drag av osäkerhet vilket för med sig att bonusförföräldrar menar sig ha mindre handlingsutrymme att ifrågasätta eller ”lägga sig i” de regler som bonusbarnbarnets biologiska släktingar satt upp. För bonusförföräldrar är det i stort sett alltid en annan vuxen som fungerar som ”door-keeper” eller dörröppnare till relationen med bonusbarnbarnet. Men positionen som bonusförförälder utmärks också av ett större mått av frihet än för biologiska förföräldrar. Den som är bonusförförälder kan i vissa fall själv bestämma sin grad av involvering i bonusbarnbarnens omsorg och kan ses som en okej bonusförförälder trots att de avviker mot de normer av intensivt förföräldrande som de biologiska förföräldrarna försöker leva upp till. En annan premiss för hur bonusförföräldrar upplever bonusförföräldraskapet utgår ifrån deras civilstånd: det vill säga om bonus-förföräldrandet är en aktivitet som riktas mot gemensamma bonusbarnbarn; som (bonus)förföräldern gör ensamt; eller om det sker i förhandling till, eller på bekostnad av, ens parrelation.Slutligen argumenterar jag för att bonusförförälderns omsorgspraktik i förhållande till bonusbarnbarn påverkas av det omsorgsgivande som utfört tidigare i livet och är kopplat till genus. Att ge omsorg är något kvinnor förväntas göra, och som tas för självklart att bara kunna och göra (De Vault, 1991). Eftersom kvinnor i högre utsträckning än män varit ansvariga för omsorg om andra i både familj- och yrkesliv innebär det att kvinnorna i studien upplever bonusomsorgen som mer belastande än vad männen i studien gör. Männen ser i högre utsträckning omsorgen om (bonus)barnbarn som en möjlighet att ta igen och ge omsorg på ett sätt som de inte gjort tidigare i livet. Utifrån detta argumenterar jag för att kvinnors generellt stora omsorgsbörda genom livet kan leda till ett tillstånd av omsorgströtthet vilket inverkar på deras vilja och ork att göra bonusförföräldrande.
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- Alenius Wallin, Linn
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Negotiations of step-grandparenting
- 2022
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Almost half of all divorced Swedes today are aged 60+ and many of them are, or have been, a part of a reconstituted family (Bildtgård & Öberg 2014). This means that the probability of having step-grandchildren increases in a life cycle perspective. For those who have never had neither children nor stepchildren, a sibling's or a friend's grandchild can have the same meaning as a step-grandchild.To become and to be a step-grandparent is complex and involves a lot of consideration. For some step-grandparents the birth of a step-grandchild can be a chance to finely be seen as a “real” grandparent by being there “from the start”. For others it commenced the negotiation between many peoples different needs and to strive to make space for themselves.Gender, class, age and health are of importance for what role someone can take in step-relations. Relationship patterns, along with doings of care from other periods in life, provide different conditions: for those who have provided care their entire life (paid and unpaid) it can be demanding, for others the relationship can be seen as an opportunity. What if you experience your partner's grandchildren as more of a burden than a bonus?This dissertation project is based on in-depth interviews with 13 step-grandchildren, age 5-19 and 12 step-grandparents aged 65-83. Theoretically, the dissertation is based on family as a doings (Morgan, 2011) and the theory of personal life (Smart, 2007).The narratives of the different interviewees show a number of ways of making step-relationships, and expose gendered norms and ideals about care and interventions between generations. The stories shows opportunities and limitations, as well as pinpoint fragility and difficulties in both step- and bio-relationships.
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- Alenius Wallin, Linn, 1980-, et al.
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With a little help from my friends : Gender and intimacy in two friendship research projects
- 2016
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Ingår i: LIR.journal. - Göteborg : Göteborgs universitet. - 2001-2489. ; :7, s. 55-73
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Friendship is an undertheorized but increasingly important relationship in late modernity. In this article, the authors present findings from two ongoing research projects about friendship, gender and age in contemporary Sweden. They argue that discourses about gender and friendship are very relevant for how friendship is conceptualized both among men and women, but that the well-known ideas about men’s inability and women’s capacity to be close friends ought to be problematized further, from feminist perspectives. Furthermore, they discuss friendships practices, problematizing the frequent equation of friendship and “deep”, intimate dialogues. Intimate dialogues are important but may overshadow other friendship practices, like various kinds of support, but the authors show that support is negotiated in relation to ideas of ideal friendship, permeated by reciprocity and equality. The authors call for further feminist research about friendship, arguing that a feminist perspective can destabilize gendered dichotomies and make it possible to problematize power relations, vulnerabilities and exclusions in friendships.
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- Anving, Terese, et al.
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Intergenerational Care in Corona times. : A Study of Relationships, Commitments, and Practices of Care in Swedish Families during a Pandemic
- 2021
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- The corona pandemic has put intergenerational relationships in focus in ways previously never experiences. In many national contexts, lockdowns and restrictions have caused forced generational separation in families. In Sweden, the official government standpoint of generational separation – all citizens over 70 were to avoid contact with others, and especially to stay away from interactions with grandchildren – has severely affected practices of care and emotional support between generations. This has brought attention to the persistent significance of care between generations in Sweden, contrasting sociological theories depicting the country as the ’most individualized’ society in the world where the expansive welfare state is seen to have led to ‘defamiliarisation’ and weakening intergenerational ties (Bauman 2003; Berggren Trägårdh 2006). Previous research, including our on-going study Intergenerational care in Sweden (SRC Eldén 2018-01053), show that involvement by grandparents in everyday care of adult children’s families has increased in recent decades, as has engagement of adult children in everyday care of grandparents. During corona, these engagements are challenged, and the consequences thereof are multifaceted (Kivi et al 2020; Iversen et al 2020). This paper analyses the effects of the corona situation on intergenerational care relations, focusing how care is done, understood and negotiated (Morgan, 2011; Mason, 1996) between elderly parents and their adult children and grandchildren. Of special interest is the effects of forced separation on relationships regarding practical care arrangements, emotional support and commitments. Our point of departure is a study where data (biographical interviews, diary interviews, lifelines, drawing exercises with grandchildren) from grandparents, adult children and grandchildren has been gathered. So far, 45 individuals have been interviewed, several in repeated encounters, before and during the pandemic.
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- Anving, Terese, et al.
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Intergenerational care in Sweden : A biographical approach
- 2022
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Practices of care between grandparents, adult children and grandchildren are the hub of intergenerational relationships. To care for an elderly parent, or for a grandchild, is an engagement that can be a necessity coming out of lack of other care providers, or it can be an engagement you voluntarily take upon yourself. It can feel like an obligation, and/or as something you do out of love for your kin, as demanding and time-consuming, or as rewarding and emotionally fulfilling. The doings and significance of intergenerational care in everyday life and throughout the life course is the focus for the study that this paper is based on. Sweden is a particularly interesting case in this respect, given its history of extensive welfare state care solutions and the explicit aim of creating a society marked by social and gender equality through publicly funded social security networks such as elderly care, paid parental leave, and child care. This has meant that individuals historically have been relieved from having to rely and depend upon parents, children or relatives for support (Lundqvist 2011). However, quantitative studies indicate that intergenerational involvement has increased in recent decades and that it is related to gender, class, and ethnicity/migration (Björnberg & Ekbrand 2008; Szebehely & Ulmanen 2012). In this project we investigate this qualitatively, focusing on how intergenerational care is organized, negotiated, and experienced between generations, as well as how gender, class, age, and ethnicity/migration intersect and inform everyday doings of intergenerational care. In the project a three-generation approach is applied, involving grandparents, their adult children, and grandchildren. Through the use of innovative methods (such as diaries and visual methods) we capture doings and understandings of care between generations and in the same family. In this paper we will give you a first glimpse of the analysis, and discuss the potential of using a biographical approach in studying the experience of everyday care doings and relationships during life course.
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- Eldén, Sara, et al.
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Grandchildhood : Care and relationality in narratives of three generations in Sweden
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Ingår i: Childhood. - 1461-7013.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- While the role of grandparents has increasingly been explored, the position of being a grandchild is under-researched. Recognising the active role of children in intergenerational care relationships, we analyse narratives of being a grandchild in Sweden in the 1940s–1950s, the 1970s–1980s, and today. Interviews with 63 participants of both genders show how conditions for care-doings change in response to welfare state developments and in relation to new ideals of childhood. Intensified engagements by grandparents in the life of grandchildren are identified, but also continuity in the significance of close and reciprocal relationships between grandchildren and grandparents.
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- Eldén, Sara, et al.
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Intergenerational care in corona times: Practices of care in Swedish families during the pandemic
- 2022
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Ingår i: Journal of Family Research. - : Universitatsbibliothek Bamberg. - 2699-2337. ; 34:1, s. 538-562
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Objective: This paper analyses intergenerational relationships in Sweden during the corona pandemic, with a special focus on practices of care. The research question is: How is care between generations – between grandparents, adult children and grandchildren – done during pandemic conditions? Background: In Sweden, where an extensive welfare state provides affordable child- and eldercare, the corona strategy of generational separation has still affected family practices of care between generations. In this article we analyse narratives of intergenerational care, taking our point of departure in theories of personal life (Smart 2007), relationality (Mason 2004), and care as sentient activity (Mason 1996). Method: The paper draws on a qualitative interview study with grandparents (n=30), adult children (n=12) and grandchildren (n=12), with data collection taking place shortly before and during the coronavirus pandemic. Results: The study detects the reciprocal and complex ways in which care between generations takes place. When people relate their experiences, strategies for new ways of doing care are at the centre, involving creative ways of negotiating distance and risk, all marked by both worry and relief. Conclusion: The pandemic condition becomes a "filter" affecting and leading to a reformulation of practices of care, from taken-for-granted co-presence narratives, into narratives of relational participation resulting in an overall heightened awareness of the importance and difficulties of intergenerational care practices. The study concludes that a strong welfare state does not translate into complete autonomy or independence; rather, people continue to live "linked lives".
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