Care in the Migration Context: A Comparative Study of Czech and Icelandic Parents’ Childcare Arrangements

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Care in the Migration Context: A Comparative Study of Czech and Icelandic Parents’ Childcare Arrangements

Original language description

International and transnational labour migration poses questions about the family life of migrant families and the strategies migrants use when making decisions on participating in the labour market and caring for their young children. The early childcare choices of European Union (EU) migrants are analysed in this qualitative study of families in which at least one parent immigrated to Iceland, comparing their child-care strategies to those of Icelandic families. Our findings show that pre-migrant ideals of care play an important role when deciding on care arrangements for under-school age children. Even though the choices of families in both groups have strong links tonpublic discourses on ‘good parenting,’ their choices being supported, reinforced, and eventually changed through specific policy designs, these discourses are not always fully accepted by migrant parents. In our sample, the care arrangements made by native Icelandic families were often more in line with public policy, whereas parents with a migration background tended to look for alternative ‘out-of-system’ solutions. The transnational families can therefore be seen not onlynas limited by a pre-migration framework, but also as enriched by their values and experiences in two policy systems, which allow them to seek alternative solutions that match their parental needs.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

C - Chapter in a specialist book

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50401 - Sociology

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name

Mobility and Transnational Iceland. Current Transformations and Global Entanglements

ISBN

978-9935-23-226-7

Number of pages of the result

17

Pages from-to

129-145

Number of pages of the book

266

Publisher name

University of Iceland Press

Place of publication

Reykjavik

UT code for WoS chapter

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