scholarly journals Gender Caring: The Everyday Construction of Black African Parents in Finland

2014 ◽  
Vol 49 ◽  
pp. 143-167 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mathias E. Ebot
Keyword(s):  
Family Life ◽  
Gender Relations ◽  
Welfare States ◽  
Family Research ◽  
Black African ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
And Gender ◽  
African Families ◽  
Depth Interviews

The Nordic countries are now firmly ensconced in academia as gender-friendly welfare states. They are seen as pioneering countries with respect to changes in family life and gender relations and thus present an interesting forum for family research. This paper explores how gender caring relates to gender, religion and parenting in Sub-Saharan African families in the context of immigration to Finland. A constructionist perspective is employed to illuminate how guidelines or scripts established in these parents’ cultures are actively used and how they in turn influence their gender relations. Gender caring is conceptualized as an ethic of reciprocity, solidarity and obligation to ensure interdependence and strong bonds among black African parents. The article draws on in-depth interviews conducted with twelve couples mainly in the Helsinki area (which includes Helsinki, Espoo, Vantaa and Kauniainen).

Narrating Everyday Precarity: Women’s Voices from Resource Poor Areas

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 192-209
Author(s):  
Veronica Masenya ◽  
Katinka De Wet ◽  
Jan K. Coetzee
Keyword(s):  
African Women ◽  
Unequal Distribution ◽  
Women's Voices ◽  
Black African ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Resource Poor ◽  
Distribution Of Resources ◽  
History Of ◽  
African Families

African family life in South Africa’s post-apartheid context is shaped by the socio-political history of the country. Despite various attempts to address the remnants of poverty, unequal distribution of resources and the lack of livelihood services still exist. African families from resource poor areas of townships in South Africa are still faced with poverty and deprivation. Black African women, often with minimum schooling, suffer the most from these scourges. This article aims to explore the everyday life narratives of precarity at various levels and the manner in which women from Mangaung Township in Bloemfontein cope with this. They talk about the fragile relationships within the family, about the gendered dynamics of the household, and about the importance of support networks.

scholarly journals K. Kasimati and L. Mousourou (editors), Gender and Immigration, Theoretical references and empirical research, (vol. I), Athens: Gutenberg Publishers, p.p. 299, 2007 (in Greek) E. Kambouri, Gender and Immigration. The everyday life of immigrants from Alba

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 81
Author(s):  
Alexandra Halkias
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Gender Relations ◽  
Intergenerational Relationships ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Albanian Immigrants ◽  
And Gender

<p>No abstract (available). </p><p>K. Kasimati and L. Mousourou (editors), Gender and Immigration, Theoretical references and empirical research, (vol. I), Athens: Gutenberg Publishers, p.p. 299, 2007 (in Greek)</p><p>E. Kambouri, Gender and Immigration. The everyday life of immigrants from Albania and Ukrania (vol. II), Athens: Gutenberg Publishers, p.p. 261, 2007 (in Greek)</p><p>M. Thanopoulou, Gender and Immigration. Intergenerational relationships and gender relations in families of Albanian immigrants (vol. III), Athens: Gutenberg Publishers, p.p. 268, 2007 (in Greek)</p><p> </p>

scholarly journals Theorizing Black (African) Transnational Masculinities

2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 521-546 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dominic Pasura ◽  
Anastasia Christou
Keyword(s):  
African Diaspora ◽  
Gender Relations ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Hegemonic Masculinity ◽  
Masculine Identity ◽  
Gender Identities ◽  
Black African ◽  
Transnational Communities ◽  
And Gender

Just as masculinity is crucial in the construction of nationhood, masculinity is also significant in the making and unmaking of transnational communities. This article focuses on how black African men negotiate and perform respectable masculinity in transnational settings, such as the workplace, community, and family. Moving away from conceptualizations of black transnational forms of masculinities as in perpetual crisis and drawing on qualitative data collected from the members of the new African diaspora in London, the article explores the diverse ways notions of masculinity and gender identities are being challenged, reaffirmed, and reconfigured. The article argues that men experience a loss of status as breadwinners and a rupture of their sense of masculine identity in the reconstruction of life in the diaspora. Conditions in the hostland, in particular, women’s breadwinner status and the changing gender relations, threaten men’s “hegemonic masculinity” and consequently force men to negotiate respectable forms of masculinity.

scholarly journals Nurses' daily life: gender relations from the time spent in hospital

2015 ◽  
Vol 23 (5) ◽  
pp. 945-953 ◽  
Author(s):  
Audrey Vidal Pereira
Keyword(s):  
Gender Relations ◽  
Conflicts Of Interest ◽  
University Hospital ◽  
Gender Inequalities ◽  
Physical And Mental Health ◽  
Power Struggles ◽  
Configuration Theory ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Time Use Survey ◽  
And Gender

Objective: to analyze the everyday life of nurses through the sexual work division as well as through interdependence relations and the time in hospital.Method: quanti-qualitative study, based on the Time Use Survey and in Norbert Elias's Configuration Theory of Interdependencies. Daily shifts distribution record, directed by 42 participants - with self-confrontation - by interviews which drew dialogues on subjective aspects of the everyday experiences related to use of time, based on a job at a university hospital. The theoretical intake that founded data analysis was based on concepts of conflicts of interest, power struggles, sexual work division and polychronic-monochronic concepts - whether the work environment demands multitasking nurses or not.Results: time records allowed to observe differences between the groups studied, useful to identify conflicts, tensions, power struggles and gender inequalities in interviewees' everyday affairs that do not only affect physical and mental health, but also their way of life.Conclusion: the analytical path pointed out the need for public policies that promote equity in gender relations, keeping at sight the exercise of plural discourses and tolerant stances capable to respect differences between individual and collective time.

scholarly journals Matrimônio e questão de gênero. Considerações teológico-sacramentais em perspectiva latino-americana

2019 ◽  
Vol 67 (267) ◽  
pp. 532
Author(s):  
Francisco Taborda
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Gender Relations ◽  
National Conference ◽  
American Perspective ◽  
Married Life ◽  
The Creation ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Lex Orandi

Em perspectiva latino-americana, o autor aborda o tema das relações entre matrimônio e gênero. A partir do axioma: lex orandi – lex credendi, descreve o matrimônio na prática habitual latino-americana, com destaque para dois aspectos: o rito do enlace matrimonial e a vida matrimonial. Pergunta, como, neles, se espelha a relação de gênero, e observa uma contradição entre o modo de praticar o rito e a experiência da vida conjugal e familiar de todo dia. Constata a presença de duas concepções que geram uma tensão entre a praxe cultural e as propostas do Evangelho, o que é normal, visto ser o matrimônio um dado da criação, antes de ser instituído um sacramento. O autor analisa também a liturgia do casamento aprovada pela CNBB e pergunta, se ela resolve ou não a tensão cultura X Evangelho. Sublinha, enfim, o desafio que essa tensão significa para o matrimônio cristão.Abstract: The author deals with the relationship between marriage and gender from a Latin-American perspective. Starting from the axiom: lex orandi-lex credendi, he describes marriage as it is usually practiced in LatinAmerica, emphasizing two of its major aspects: the matrimonial rite and married life. Asking how gender relations influence these two aspects of marriage, he notices a contradiction between the way the rite is practiced and the every day experience of married and family life. He also notices the presence of two concepts that produce some tension between the cultural praxis and the Gospel’s proposals and sees this as a normal occurrence since, before being instituted as a sacrament, marriage was already a datum of the Creation. The author analyses the matrimonial liturgy sanctioned by the National Conference of Brazilian Bishops and wonders whether or not it solves the tension “culture versus Gospel”. Finally he stresses how this tension has become a challenge for the Christian marriage.

Muslim Family in Northern Mozambique: Sharīʿa, Matriliny and the Official Legislation in Paquitequete

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
Liazzat J. K. Bonate
Keyword(s):  
Family Life ◽  
Gender Relations ◽  
Modern State ◽  
Coastal City ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Community Courts ◽  
Muslim Family ◽  
Maternal Side

Abstract Although Islam has a long history in coastal northern Mozambique, the question of how Muslims manage family life there is little understood. Based on the analysis of historical, ethnographic and legal records, and a case study of a bairro (Port., ward) called Paquitequete in the contemporary coastal city of Pemba in Cabo Delgado province, this article focuses on Muslim family and gender relations in northern Mozambique. It argues that Muslims of this region maintain concurrent legal identities as Muslims, matrilineal Africans and citizens of the modern state. While women benefitted from matriliny by accessing the land and support from their maternal side, upon widowhood and divorce they lost access to their husband’s or common assets because the husbands’ matriclan claimed them. The perseverance of matriliny made local Muslims seem to abide less by Islamic norms, but historically they have combined the Shāfiʿī madhhab (Islamic legal school) with matrilineal custom. In contemporary Pemba, family and gender relations are regulated not only by Sharīʿa or by African ‘traditions’, but by a blend of elements from these two alongside modern legislations. Moreover, it could be said that this arrangement is endorsed by a kind of popular consensus, which is particularly salient in the Community Courts.

scholarly journals MAKNA DAN PERUBAHAN RELASI GENDER BAGI PEREMPUAN PEKERJA DADAKAN DI MASA PANDEMI COVID-19

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 446
Author(s):  
Ditha Aziezah Setiyono ◽  
Johanna Debora Imelda
Keyword(s):  
Gender Relations ◽  
Study Data ◽  
Family Needs ◽  
Gender Relation ◽  
Double Burden ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Case Study Data

2020 is a historic year due to the outbreak of the Covid-19 virus. As a result, people are forced to adapt to a new normal situation, which changes their daily lives order. In this condition, women are experiencing a double burden, including when men, as 'breadwinners', has experiencing the termination of employment (PHK) or decreasing in his income. There are various ways that women do for supporting their children and family needs. Such as being an unexpected worker. This study aims to provide an explanation on the meaning of being an unepected worker and gender relation changes using Bourdieu perspective. The research method employed is descriptive qualitative, using a case study. Data are collected through in-depth interviews, observation, and documentation. The results showed that the meaning of becoming an unexpected worker and  the process of gender relations changes cannot be separated from the habitus of women. Work has economic and non-economic meaning when workers become impromptu workers. In the context of changing gender relations, the higher level of women education, the more parallel the gender relations are formed. Vice versa, the lower of their educations, the more domination of men in a gender relation. Tahun 2020 menjadi tahun bersejarah karena merebaknya virus Covid-19, akibatnya masyarakat mengubah tata cara kehidupan sehari-hari. Dalam kondisi ini, perempuan menjadi pihak yang harus bekerja ekstra, termasuk saat laki-laki sebagai 'income earner' mengalami Pemutusan Hubungan Kerja (PHK) atau pengurangan pendapatan. Berbagai cara dilakukan perempuan untuk anak dan kelangsungan keluarga, salah satunya dengan menjadi perempuan pekerja dadakan. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk memberi gambaran makna menjadi pekerja dadakan dan perubahan relasi gender yang terjadi denga menggunakan teori sosial Bourdeui. Metode penelitian yang digunakan penelitian kualitatif deskriptif dengan jenis studi kasus. Pengumpulan data dilakukan melalui wawancara mendalam, observasi dan dokumentasi. Hasil penelitian menunjukan makna menjadi pekerja dadakan dan perubahan relasi gender tersebut tidak lepas dari habitus perempuan. Terdapat makna ekonomi dan non-ekonomi saat perempuan menjadi pekerja dadakan. Dalam konteks perubahan relasi gender semakin tinggi tingkat pendidikan semakin sejajar relasi gender yang terbentuk. Begitu pula sebaliknya, semakin rendah tingkat pendidikan semakin perempuan didominasi oleh laki-laki dalam sebuah relasi gender.

scholarly journals “The shifting patterns of customary marriage and gender relations in post-conflict northern Uganda.”

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (8) ◽  
pp. 105-118
Author(s):  
Ejang Mary
Keyword(s):  
Gender Relations ◽  
Northern Uganda ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Economic Changes ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
Traditional Marriage ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Customary Practices ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Over Time

This paper presents the transformations in the customary marriage processes, practices and gender relations among Lango in northern Uganda. The paper takes a qualitative approach using generational in-depth interviews with participants in the sub-counties of Lira and Ogur, Lira district northern Uganda. The findings indicate that marriage was a highly respected institution in Lango culture accomplished by the payment of bride wealth called ‘lim nyom’ but greatly transformed over time from material to monetary demand. The traditional marriage process was punctuated by eight designated sequential events and installment payment of the bride-wealth. However, this paper underlines that Lango customary marriage (‘Nyom tekwaro Lango’) has changed over time due to the rapid social, economic, cultural and traditional changes to match the socio-economic and ideological realities dictated by the globalization process. Core among the factors that have influenced and undermined Lango customary marriage is borrowing the alien value system to suit the contemporary social and economic changes. This paper argues that whereas it is important to adopt the new marriage principles and practices, the shift affects gender relations and thus it is worth retaining the significant valuable customary practices that knit family and community members.

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