Descripción del proyecto
Una perspectiva judicial de la maternidad en solitario
Las familias monoparentales —la gran mayoría encabezadas por mujeres— son cada vez más comunes en la Unión Europea, y también se enfrentan a un mayor riesgo de pobreza. Por lo tanto, las madres solteras necesitan recursos, empleo y apoyo social. El proyecto STRESS-Mums, financiado con fondos europeos, se centra en la transición judicial de la doble paternidad a la maternidad en solitario y en lo que esto significa para cuestiones relacionadas, como la custodia de los hijos. Mediante un método de investigación sociológica en etnografía institucional, los investigadores del proyecto llevarán a cabo entrevistas en Bélgica, Italia y España para revisar las estrategias y los problemas relacionados con la ciudadanía de género y obtener una visión más profunda de los problemas de los padres y las madres solteros.
Objetivo
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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MSCA-IF-EF-CAR - CAR – Career Restart panelCoordinador
2000 Antwerpen
Bélgica