Lunchrooms in the Care Loops: Filipino Au Pair Migrants Between Hierarchy and Equality in Norway

Isaksen, Lise Widding; Bikova, Mariya

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-92889-6_8

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“…Care loops are the 'daily choreography' organizing actors' movements in time and space. The 'local care loops' orchestrated by parents in our study entail and enable certain movements (Isaksen & Näre, 2019;Isaksen & Bikova, 2022), both for themselves and for the other actors involved, here specifically nannies, au pairs, and children. To capture these, theoretical points of departure are needed that enable an understanding of both family and time as processes rather than as factual entities.…”

Section: Theorizing Families and Timementioning

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“…Norway, Denmark, and Finland experienced similar developments(Bikova, 2017;Näre & Wide, 2019;Stenum, 2010) but, in recent years, have exhibited different tendencies. For instance, in Norway, the willingness of families to hire au pairs has declined(Isaksen & Bikova, 2022).3 In Sweden, nanny (barnflicka) refers to a live-out child care worker, employed by the hour through an agency, without formal education, and who usually works for a family a5 'QUALITY TIME' IN NANNY FAMILIES ……”

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‘Quality Time’ in Nanny Families: Local Care Loops and New Inequalities in Sweden

Eldén

Anving

2022

Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life

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Political initiatives such as tax deductions for domestic services including nannies have, together with a growing au pair market, paved the way for new possibilities of organizing child care and parenting in Sweden. This affects everyday ‘local care loops’ for the upper-middle-class families purchasing the services, as the logistics of solving the work-family dilemma change with the possibility of hiring cheap female—and often migrant—care workers (Näre & Isaksen 2019). In this chapter, we analyse how this affects the doing of family in ‘nanny families’. Taking our point of departure in a qualitative study with nannies and au pairs (n = 26), parents (n = 29), and children receiving care (n = 19) (Eldén and Anving 2019), we show how everyday care is experienced and understood from the perspective of different actors involved in the practice, with a special focus on ideas of ‘quality time’. We argue that the new possibilities of organizing care and time in families reproduce inequalities: the new local care loops enable the possibility for some—well-off—parents to realize ideals of ‘good and stress-free parenting’, with quality time with their children, while at the same time not giving up on the idea of gender equality.

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