Projektbeschreibung
Ein juristischer Blick auf Alleinerziehende
Familien mit nur einem Elternteil – die überwiegende Mehrheit davon von Frauen geleitet – werden in der Europäischen Union immer häufiger. Sie sind auch einem höheren Armutsrisiko ausgesetzt. Alleinerziehende brauchen Ressourcen, Beschäftigung und soziale Unterstützung. Das EU-finanzierte Projekt STRESS-Mums hat seinen Schwerpunkt auf dem rechtlichen Übergang von Familien mit zwei Elternteilen zu Alleinerziehenden und was dies für damit zusammenhängende Themen wie das Sorgerecht bedeutet. Mit einer Methode der soziologischen Forschung in institutioneller Ethnografie werden die Forschenden Interviews in Belgien, Italien und Spanien durchführen, um geschlechtsspezifische Strategien und Probleme zu untersuchen und tiefere Einblicke in Probleme von Alleinerziehenden zu erhalten.
Ziel
Lone motherhood is considered as an increasing social problem, not only because its increase but also since it leads to diverse and separated women having only a partial citizenship. There is little knowledge on the social relations and practices that contribute – or do not contribute – to protecting and socially including lone mothers, beginning from the crucial transition to lone parenthood: the judicial evaluation. Focusing on the transition from double parenthood to lone motherhood and, in particular, on the period of judicial evaluation for child custody and judicial decisions for children/family allowances and divorce/separation, this project aims to investigate some specific aspects of the socio-cultural construction of an active gender citizenship by future lone mothers. The interest is in lone mothers’ everyday strategies and social practices to claim inclusion and to negotiate (or not negotiate) the dominant definition of family and parenthood proposed by institutions and professionals, and the less legitimated and multiple situated definitions of lone parents and their families. Introducing the everyday dimension into the study of gender citizenship has the purpose of exploring the lone mothers’ manifest and hidden ‘work’ of legitimation and of possible de-legitimation by institutions. Adopting the sociological approach of Institutional Ethnography (IE) as a method, this study will collect data in three EU countries (Belgium, Italy and Spain) and in the UK, with discursive interviews to lone mothers, professionals and gender issues activists, participant observations, and photo-voice. The action includes an extensive training in life course studies and gender studies, advanced qualitative methods and academic English language. This action will be hosted by the University of Antwerp, with a secondment phase at the University of Edinburgh and visits at the University of Granada and at the IEN-Institutional Ethnography Nordic Network.
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