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- Moberg, Christina, et al.
(författare)
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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
(författare)
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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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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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- 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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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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