Children Negotiating their Place through Space in Multi-local, Joint Physical Custody Arrangements

Merla, Laura; Nobels, Bérengère

doi:10.1108/978-1-78769-415-620191005

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“…Relatedly, children and young people value the times when their parents are focused on them in ways that facilitate meaningful connection (e.g., Smyth 2004, Haugen 2010, Campo et al 2012. The literature also points to the physical, emotional and psychological challenges for children in moving across households (Smart 2002, Merla andNobels 2019), including their difficulties in claiming their own space and believing they belong (Smart 2002, Davies 2015, Wade & Whitehead 2016, Palludan and Winther 2017.…”

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confidence: 99%

The Meaning of Home for Children and Young People after Separation

Campo

Fehlberg

Natalier

et al. 2020

Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law

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This paper explores 68 Australian children and young people's understandings of what 'home' means for them after their parents' separation. Home-a familiar yet complex concept of great personal and social significance-has been a research focus for many other disciplines but not family law. We found that home, as an idea and lived experience, was complex. Children and young people's descriptions of home conveyed an interaction of tangible and intangible dimensions. Home was rarely defined by children and young people solely in terms of a physical residence; rather it was a fundamentally relational idea and experience, largely created through everyday interactions with significant others. Our study suggests that home is not simply the outcome of conforming to a defined list of 'good' post-separation parenting practices, or dependent on the amount of time spent at each parent's residence: it has an existential significance for children and young people that matters deeply to them.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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The Meaning of Home for Children and Young People after Separation

Campo

Fehlberg

Natalier

et al. 2020

Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law

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“…For example, “comic book-like sketches” have been used as a participatory element to rate the importance of multi-locality aspects (Lange, 2018). Further studies have used the “socio-spatial network game” (Merla & Nobels, 2019; Schier et al, 2015) during interviews, using such items as board game pieces or model animals to make it easier for interviewees to talk about residences, or important people in their lives.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Additional spatial-related studies have used a range of ‘respondent-created’ visual data collection methods. Examples are “mental maps” (Nadler, 2014), “mobility maps” (Weidinger, et al, 2019) or “emotion maps” (Merla & Nobels, 2019) where participants draw a map of specific places, associating them with subjective emotions. Respondent-generated visual material is seen to give researchers closer insights into interviewees’ lives from their own perspective (Oldrup & Carstensen, 2012), often functioning as ‘speech support’ (Merla & Nobels, 2019, p. 84).…”

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Using Participatory Visual Methods to Explore Multi-Local Living Arrangements - The Example of Work-Life Biographies and Reflexive Photography

Garde

Greinke

2022

International Journal of Qualitative Methods

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This paper explores work-related multi-locality – living in several places for work-related reasons – using qualitative interviews including participatory visual methods. To give space to multi-locals as people with complex living and working arrangements and to support their narratives, the visual methods work-life biographies and reflexive photography were used during interviews. After introducing the state of research on work-related multi-local living and visual methods, two German case studies, the one in the city of Stuttgart in Baden-Wuerttemberg, the other in the rural district of Diepholz in Lower Saxony, are described. The aim of this paper is to ascertain the value of using visual methods to explore multi-local living arrangements. The research questions are: (1) Which (specific) elements do multi-local employees visualise when using work-life biographies and reflexive photography? (2) Which new insights into multi-local living arrangements do the two methods provide? (3) What are the pros and cons of using such methods within qualitative interviews? The study shows that multi-locals used common thematic elements when using the visual methods: For example, especially words, numbers, specific signs and bars in the case of biographies and certain situation, people and objects in case of the photographs. Furthermore, both methods allowed new insights into multi-local living arrangements, such as their temporal and spatial dimensions, the interplay between living and working arrangements over time as well as the place attachment of multi-locals. Using visual methods during qualitative interviews provided clear added value in studying multi-locality, as it created a suitable interview introduction, reinforced spoken statements or facilitated the discussion of sensitive topics. Participatory visual methods can be used to explore a range of topics in qualitative studies looking at participants in complex situations. For multi-locality studies in particular, visual methods can be beneficial in stimulating and addressing a combination of spatial and temporal thinking.

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“…More recent research on multi-locality has aimed at mapping out multi-locality conceptually (Nadler, 2009;Weichhart, 2015;Schmidt-Kallert, 2016) and developing a typology of multi-local practices (Duchêne-Lacroix, 2014). The range of multi-local practices is quite broad, including job-related multi-locality (Jordan, 2008;Schneider, Meil, 2008;Thieme, 2008;Reuschke, 2012;Garde, 2021), non-cohabitating or "Living Apart Together" couples and post-separation families (Schier et al, 2015;Schier, 2016;Merla, Nobels, 2019), and second homes (Bonnin, Villanova, 1999; | Traditiones Bendix, Löfgren, 2007;Rolshoven, 2007). Studies focused on developing typologies of multi-local practices also analyzed overlapping lines of inquiry into diverse forms of multi-locality, be they established practices of the past (Duchêne-Lacroix, Mäder, 2013) or practices that are analyzed within other conceptual frameworks (e.g., for second homes, see Bendix, Löfgren, 2007).…”

Section: The Emergence Of Multi-locality As An Object Of Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%