Family Life in Transition

<p>This volume examines the ways in which bordering practices influence the everyday lives of racialized parents in the changing welfare states of Finland Denmark Norway and Sweden. Focusing on the need to negotiate adjust and reconcile family life parenthood and parenting practices in the face of national material ideological cultural religious and moral borders it considers the manner in which these processes are complicated by recent changes in the legitimation of Nordic welfare states. The case studies centre on migrant refugee and asylum seeker parents as well as parents of the indigenous Sámi communities. The book considers the ways in which the welfare state and its services construct borders of respectable parenthood and examines the efforts on the part of racialized parents to negotiate such borders and organize their transnational everyday lives. Uncovering possibilities and obstacles that exist for families seeking to enact citizenship in the Nordic welfare states <i>Family Life in Transition</i> will appeal to social scientists with interests in the sociology of the family children parenting and the welfare state.</p>