Doing Care, Doing Citizenship

Pratesi, Alessandro

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-63109-7

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“…Women may remain tied to obligations of care and struggle more than men to build lives outside the home. Care certainly has its dark sides (Pratesi, 2017) and should not be over-romanticized (Caduff, 2019).…”

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confidence: 99%

“I just try my best to make them happy”: the role of intra-familial relationships of care in the integration of reunited refugee families

Baillot

2023

Front. Hum. Dyn.

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Migration through managed routes such as spousal and work visas has been conceptualized as being a pragmatic choice driven by the needs of families rather than individuals. In contrast, studies of refugee integration post-migration have tended to analyse integration processes through the perspective of the individual rather than through a family lens. Drawing from data collection using a social connections mapping tool methodology with recently reunited refugee families supported by a third sector integration service in the UK, in this paper the author makes a valuable contribution to addressing this theoretical gap. The author explores the ambivalent ways in which family relationships, and the care that flows between family members, influence emotional, and practical aspects of refugees' integration. Empirically the inclusion of accounts from people occupying different positions within their families, including from children, adds depth to our understanding of integration from a refugee perspective. Conceptually, the paper argues that a focus on familial relationships of care re-positions refugees not as passive recipients of care, but active and agentive subjects who offer care to others. The paper ends with a call for integration to be understood in a family way that fully encompasses the opportunities and limitations offered by familial care.

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“I just try my best to make them happy”: the role of intra-familial relationships of care in the integration of reunited refugee families

Baillot

2023

Front. Hum. Dyn.

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“…In fact, same-sex families experience forms of relational integration and inclusion and produce social change by being visible, 'out there', and having to live in close proximity to heterosexual cultures (in the negotiation with schools, other parents, local communities, etc.) whilst not being able -or willing -to inhabit the heterosexual ideal (Ahmed, 2010;Pratesi, 2012aPratesi, , 2018a. If that's the case, same-sex couples relating at a distance might add relevant information about the complexities of such social change.…”

Section: Unconventional Distance Relationships: the Uncharted Territomentioning

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“…A fourth reason making the study of unconventional distance relationships theoretically relevant is that their living at a distance might make it possible to compare them with other distance relaters, including several of the different social actors who are described by Beck and Beck-Gernsheim in terms of world families (2014). Above all, a focus on these unequally entitled citizens is relevant to shed light on the micro-situated dynamics through which forms of exclusion, inequality and homophobia which persist at the structural level may be somehow fought against and overcome at a micro-level by forms of interactional and relational inclusion (Pratesi, 2018a).…”

Section: Unconventional Distance Relationships: the Uncharted Territomentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Several scholars have further highlighted the necessity to go beyond a mere comparative research agenda which has thus far characterised much of current literature on sexual minorities and same-sex families (Clarke et al, 2010;Gato, 2016). Far from reproducing a narrative of oppression and victimisation, these critical perspectives tend to emphasise the benefits of being outsiders inside (Unger, 2000) and shed light on the ways in which several types of unequally entitled citizens can produce emotion-based and micro-situated forms of social inclusion, entitlement, citizenship and social change (Albrecht, 2016(Albrecht, , 2018Cappellato and Mangarella, 2014;Pratesi, 2017Pratesi, , 2018a. This clearly resonates with Pakulski's notion of cultural citizenship (Pakulski, 1997), which represents a new set of claims -including the right to symbolic presence and visibility vs. marginalisation, the right to dignifying representation vs. stigmatisation; and the right to affirmation and propagation of identity vs. assimilation -involving the idea of a full inclusion in the culture of a specific society.…”

Section: Visions From the Borders: Positive Marginality Citizenship mentioning

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Unconventional relationships, positive marginalities and citizenship

Pratesi

2018

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Long distance relationships and caring at a distance may be connected with emotional and psychological exhaustion but also gratification, reward and empowerment; above all, they possess important implications in terms of social justice, equality and citizenship. The expression ‘world families’ (Beck and Beck-Gernsheim, 2014) includes a heterogeneous and tension-filled set of social actors who have in common the potential to bridge traditional distinctions between public and private, centre and periphery, national and international, able-bodied and physically/cognitively impaired, heterosexual and homosexual, bypassing dichotomous ideas of inclusion/exclusion which typically characterise the concept of citizenship. These families represent a group of very different social actors, including couples of mixed cultures and ethnicities, low-paid migrant workers, skilled migrant workers, asylum seekers, refugees, distant families, etc. who challenge our culturally homogenous understanding of family and society and are defined therefore as ‘pioneers of cosmopolitanism’ and cultural diversity. Drawing on recent work on families, relationships, intimacies and caring for distant others and contextualising it within the specific and still unexplored context of Living Apart Together (LAT) same-sex couples, this article examines the moral, sociological and institutional geographies of these less visible chains of care and affection and their unequally entitled rights and visibility. The literature review is combined with auto-ethnographic work analysing and discussing the case of a married, same-sex, transnational, Living Apart Together (LAT) couple. This article suggests that by looking at what happens at the level of emotion-based, micro-situated interactions we can get some crucial insights into the changing nature of families, intimacies and relationships and their multiple implications in terms of social inclusion, entitlement to rights/citizenship and social change. It is a form of relational, emotion-based and micro-situated social inclusion and entitlement to rights/citizenship which is occurring, on a daily basis, in the interstices of people’s interactions even when such change still meets several obstacles at the structural, political and institutional level.

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Pluralizing the Debate on Same-Sex Parenting: Strategies and Narratives of Italian LGB Parents with Children from Heterosexual Relationships

Trappolin

2022

Non-Binary Family Configurations: Intersections of Queerness and Homonormativity

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Doing Care, Doing Citizenship

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Cited by 11 publications

References 151 publications

“I just try my best to make them happy”: the role of intra-familial relationships of care in the integration of reunited refugee families

“I just try my best to make them happy”: the role of intra-familial relationships of care in the integration of reunited refugee families

Unconventional relationships, positive marginalities and citizenship

Pluralizing the Debate on Same-Sex Parenting: Strategies and Narratives of Italian LGB Parents with Children from Heterosexual Relationships

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