4 The Migrant Provider Role

2020 ◽  
pp. 53-71
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2021 ◽  
Vol 60 (10) ◽  
pp. 598-599
Author(s):  
Tedra S. Smith ◽  
Melanie Gibbons Hallman ◽  
David T. House

2020 ◽  
pp. 003802612093142
Author(s):  
Ann Nilsen

The adult person is in sociological literature often referred to as a genderless and classless being. As a life course phase it is implicitly viewed as a static destination after a dynamic transition period of youth. The aim of this article is to empirically examine perceptions of adulthood in biographical interviews in three-generation Norwegian families. A case-based biographical approach related to gender and social class across historical periods is at the core of the analysis. Thoughts on independence and the Mead-inspired concept of relationality are used as sensitising concepts to examine general ideals and personal considerations in notions of adulthood. The analyses indicate variations over historical periods, generations and life course phases wherein relationality or independence become significant. Relationality may take on different meanings with reference to period-specific gender expectations such as the male provider role and women as the primary carer in families in the oldest generations. Ideals of individual independence as choice or necessity vary according to life course phase, social class and period-specific conditions.


2013 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 389-399 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana L. Jaramillo-Sierra ◽  
Katherine R. Allen
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2001 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 84-106 ◽  
Author(s):  
SHAWN L. CHRISTIANSEN ◽  
ROB PALKOVITZ
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2000 ◽  
Vol 21 (7) ◽  
pp. 811-837 ◽  
Author(s):  
FAUSTINA E. HAYNES

This article relies on in-depth, open-ended interviews with 15 Black men to explore three questions: What do Black men and Black women expect from marital life? How did these expectations evolve? and What impact, if any, will these expectations have on the cycle of the second shift and provider role strain? The author found that the male and female respondents expect that men will take on the provider roles in their families because a man's self-worth is rooted in his ability to take on the provider role. Respondents also expect that women will be nurturers in their families. This is not to suggest that the male respondents expect that their wives will be submissive—far from it. In fact, the male respondents expect their wives to work. However, regardless of whether women work or not, the respondents insist that men have to be providers and women have to be nurturers in their families. Finally, the male and female respondents intend to pass/have passed their gender-specific ideologies about family life and spousal roles on to their children.


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