The changing role of migrant grandparents and the emergence of dual-core familism in urban China

IF 1.1 3区社会学 Q3 FAMILY STUDIES

Families Relationships and Societies Pub Date : 2022-12-05 DOI:10.1332/204674321x16675621882568

Hongyu Xu, Yixiong Huang

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Abstract

In China, Confucian authoritative familism has long established the tradition of paternal grandparents caring for grandchildren. With urbanisation in progress, many older people choose to settle in cities with their children, mainly to look after their grandchildren, and are known as ‘migrant grandparents’. Through a study of this group in Shanghai, the article reveals four other roles of migrant grandparents in addition to the role of caregivers: namely, workers, leisure seekers, in-laws (qingjia) and spouses. The prioritisation of grandparents’ roles demonstrates their increasing subjectivity in self-determination, transformative social values and personal life expectations. This article argues that Chinese older adults have begun to individualise and that these practices have contributed both to the destruction of the collective single-core family model in traditional and neo-familism and the emergence of independent, dual-core familism between two generations.

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流动祖父母角色的转变与中国城市双核家庭主义的产生

在中国，儒家权威的家庭主义早已确立了祖父母照顾孙子孙女的传统。随着城市化进程的推进，许多老年人选择带着子女在城市定居，主要是为了照顾孙辈，他们被称为“流动祖父母”。通过对上海这一群体的研究，本文揭示了流动祖父母在照顾者角色之外的其他四个角色:即工人、休闲者、姻亲和配偶。祖父母角色的优先次序表明，他们在自决、变革的社会价值观和个人生活期望方面的主体性日益增强。本文认为，中国老年人已经开始个性化，这些做法既破坏了传统和新家庭主义中的集体核心家庭模式，也导致了两代人之间独立的双核家庭主义的出现。

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Families Relationships and Societies FAMILY STUDIES-

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2.10

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期刊介绍： Families, Relationships and Societies (FRS) is a vibrant social science journal advancing scholarship and debates in the field of families and relationships. It explores family life, relationships and generational issues across the life course. Bringing together a range of social science perspectives, with a strong policy and practice focus, it is also strongly informed by sociological theory and the latest methodological approaches. The title ''Families, Relationships and Societies'' encompasses the fluidity, complexity and diversity of contemporary social and personal relationships and their need to be understood in the context of different societies and cultures. International and comprehensive in scope, FRS covers a range of theoretical, methodological and substantive issues, from large scale trends, processes of social change and social inequality to the intricacies of family practices. It welcomes scholarship based on theoretical, qualitative or quantitative analysis. High quality research and scholarship is accepted across a wide range of issues. Examples include family policy, changing relationships between personal life, work and employment, shifting meanings of parenting, issues of care and intimacy, the emergence of digital friendship, shifts in transnational sexual relationships, effects of globalising and individualising forces and the expansion of alternative ways of doing family. Encouraging methodological innovation, and seeking to present work on all stages of the life course, the journal welcomes explorations of relationships and families in all their different guises and across different societies.