Å bli for barnas skyld: Polske småbarnsfedres perspektiver på å bo med familie i Norge

Abstract

How do Polish migrant fathers in Norway reflect upon their own, their partner’s and their children’s sense of belonging and future? And how are the fathers’ possibilities for care and breadwinning taken into these reflections? Based on qualitative interviews with migrant fathers from Poland, I use a transnational perspective and the new field of research on migrant fathers as caregivers. The results show that the fathers’ care and consideration for their children’s needs seems to create changes in these fathers’ ways of “being” and “doing” transnational family life. A key finding is that children growing up, starting school, and beginning to take root themselves becomes an important reason for continuing to live in Norway.