Description du projet
Un regard judiciaire sur la maternité isolée
Les familles monoparentales, en grande majorité emmenées par des femmes, sont de plus en plus courantes dans l’Union européenne. Elles font également face à de plus grands risques de pauvreté. En tant que tels, les parents isolés ont besoin de ressources, d’emploi et de soutien social. Le projet STRESS-Mums, financé par l’UE, met l’accent sur la transition judiciaire de la double parentalité à la monoparentalité, et sur ce que cela signifie pour des questions connexes telles que la garde des enfants. En entreprenant une méthode de recherche sociologique en ethnographie institutionnelle, les chercheurs du projet collecteront des entretiens en Belgique, en Italie et en Espagne pour examiner les stratégies et les problèmes liés à la citoyenneté de genre afin de mieux comprendre les problèmes de monoparentalité.
Objectif
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 panelCoordinateur
2000 Antwerpen
Belgique