Who Takes Care of the Children? Albanian Migrant Parents’ Strategies for Combining Work and Childcare in Greece

IF 1.1 3区 社会学 Q2 AREA STUDIES
Armela Xhaho, A. Bailey, Erka Çaro
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Abstract

ABSTRACT This paper aims to explore the strategies Albanian migrant parents in Greece employ to reconcile their work and childcare responsibilities. The institutional context, the informal work setting, and the agency of the migrants all play crucial roles in their childcare arrangements. This research draws on 36 biographical interviews conducted during 2014–2016 with parents in Greece. Our findings suggest that migrants use different coping strategies to manage their work and care responsibilities. These strategies include mother-centred strategies or mothers making career sacrifices to meet their care responsibilities, shared parenting, relying on extended family and friends, delegating care to older children, leaving children to care for themselves, taking children to work, and transnational care practices. This study shows how care arrangement options were constrained and continuously shaped by migration, care, gender, and labour regimes.
谁来照顾孩子?阿尔巴尼亚移民父母在希腊工作与育儿相结合的策略
摘要本文旨在探讨在希腊的阿尔巴尼亚移民父母调和工作与育儿责任的策略。体制环境、非正式工作环境和移民机构都在他们的托儿安排中发挥着关键作用。本研究借鉴了2014-2016年期间对希腊父母进行的36次传记访谈。我们的研究结果表明,移民使用不同的应对策略来管理他们的工作和照顾责任。这些战略包括以母亲为中心的战略或母亲牺牲职业以履行其照顾责任、共同养育子女、依靠大家庭和朋友、将照顾委托给较大的儿童、让儿童照顾自己、带儿童去工作以及跨国护理做法。这项研究表明,护理安排的选择是如何受到移民、护理、性别和劳动力制度的限制和持续影响的。
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