Intergenerational transmissions in transnational families and national affiliations
Autor/in:
Delcroix, Catherine; Lagier, Elsa
Quelle: Zeitschrift für Qualitative Forschung, 15 (2014) 1-2, S 25-38
Inhalt: "This article explains and illustrates the method of family histories, reconstructed from crossed biographical interviews of different members of the same family. This methodology allows for the collection of fine and precious data in order to try to understand the complexity of the dynamics of intergenerational transmissions and the construction of national affiliations of immigrants' descendants. It shows how continuously shifting family relationships underlie creativity in parenting strategies. In addition, this approach can circumvent some specific barriers to the study of immigrant families, who often speak uneasily with researchers. This methodology helps us to avoid reification of static identities." (author's abstract)
Intergenerational transmission of trajectories of suffering in precarious environments: researching the younger generations' strategies of reinterpretation
Autor/in:
Chaieb, Sarra; Schwarz, Christoph H.
Quelle: Zeitschrift für Qualitative Forschung, 15 (2014) 1-2, S 57-77
Inhalt: "This article discusses some pivotal questions regarding processes of the intergenerational transmission of trajectories of suffering in precarious places: to what extent can such processes provide resources that foster agency, and to what extent do they rather constitute barriers to living one's own life? How much do intergenerational relations allow for certain reinterpretations while discouraging or inhibiting others? Which reinterpretations of the older generations' experiences appear legitimate in certain contexts, and which are rebuked by one's social environment? In order to pursue these questions we present analyses of two very different cases that are based on two forms of data material - the life story of Emma, a woman in her 50s, and ethno-analytic group interviews with adolescents aged 14 to 20. Both cases are embedded in very different regional and political contexts: the former, in the French system of fostering institutions, and the latter a Palestinian refugee camp in the West Bank. Both constitute, however, cases of intergenerational transmission of trajectories of suffering. One objective of this article is to illustrate how the contrasting of such cases across different kinds of data and contexts can be heuristically useful for methodologically gauging the spectrum of the ubiquitous and sometimes paradoxical phenomena of intergenerational transmission, in order to further develop its conceptualization." (author's abstract)
Experiences of migration as a space for reflection: renegotiating gender roles in family relationships
Autor/in:
Dudt, Muriel; Kempf, Andreas Oskar; Satola, Agnieszka
Quelle: Zeitschrift für Qualitative Forschung, 15 (2014) 1-2, S 97-113
Inhalt: "Based on biographical narrative interviews with three migrant women, the article discusses how migration experiences can lead to a reflection of gender roles. In the three cases, there are various motivations for migration, different family arrangements and work experiences throughout the migration process, and also a change of roles of the women within their families. For the interview partners, the access to material resources achieved partly under great sacrifice and the possibility to compare different life contexts and gender regimes triggered an ambivalent process of reflection on gender relations. Their reorganization of gender relations can be rather incomplete or require strong legitimization upon return; it can also be transmitted as a project for the next generation to complete." (author's abstract)
Three women in a city: crossing borders and negotiating national belonging
Autor/in:
Pape, Elise; Takeda, Ayumi; Guhlich, Anna
Quelle: Zeitschrift für Qualitative Forschung, 15 (2014) 1-2, S 39-56
Inhalt: "The major theoretical literature has considered the concept of nation primarily from a macro level. This article explores the question of national belonging departing from an individual's point of view, more precisely from the life story of three migrant women. Migration and transnational practices have challenged the perception of the homogeneity of nations, questioning the idea of fixed boundaries, and showing how different national and social forms of belonging may develop simultaneously through migration experience. Drawing on biographical interviews conducted with three migrant women, Amina El Asri, Gule Yildiz and Zuzana Svitá, the present analysis focusses on the construction of national belonging of the women in an intersectional perspective. Mrs. El Asri, Mrs. Yildiz and Mrs. Svitá originate from different countries (respectively Morocco, Turkey and Czechia). They have different social origins and ages, but share the same sex, their residence in the same city in West Germany and the fact that they all have children. The analysis reveals the profound impact of the socio-historical contexts the women come from on their construction of national belonging, but also of age and of transmission processes to their children. It is mainly through passing on their mother tongue and reshaping their conception of national belonging over time that the women manage to establish strong ties to their children, and contribute, by articulating different lines of belonging, to the redefinition of (trans)nation building processes." (author's abstract)
Schlagwörter:Migration; migration; Migrant; migrant; woman; Nation; nation; nationale Identität; national identity; Identitätsbildung; identity formation; Gruppenzugehörigkeit; group membership; gender-specific factors; Intersektionalität; intersectionality; Familie; family; Generation; generation; soziale Herkunft; social background; Bindung; commitment; Federal Republic of Germany; Biographie; biography; biographische Methode; biographical method
SSOAR Kategorie:Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, Familiensoziologie, Sexualsoziologie, Migration
Ländliche Milieus: Familiengenerationen und Armutstraditionen
Titelübersetzung:Rural Milieus: Family Generations and Poverty Traditions
Autor/in:
Sparschuh, Vera
Quelle: Zeitschrift für Qualitative Forschung, 14 (2013) 2, S 243-260
Inhalt: Milieus werden im sozialwissenschaftlichen Diskurs zur Beschreibung gesellschaftlicher Lagen vertikal geordnet, und es wird grob zwischen "oberen" und "unteren" Milieus unterschieden. Dabei werden die "unteren" Milieus weniger systematisch abgebildet als die "oberen"; somit figurieren oft alltagsweltliche Zuschreibungen und nicht zuletzt Vorurteile. Am Beispiel ländlicher Milieus im Nordosten der Bundesrepublik werden diese "unteren" Milieus im Drei-Generationen-Zusammenhang untersucht. Hierbei wird an das praxeologisch begründete Milieukonzept von Ralf Bohnsack angeknüpft, indem Milieus konsequent aus Strukturidentitäten der Lebens- und Sozialisationsgeschichte rekonstruiert werden. Mit der Rekonstruktion von mehreren Familiengeschichten mit Armutserfahrungen ist es gelungen, über Generationen hinweg tradierte Orientierungsrahmen, die das Handeln der Menschen bestimmen, herauszuarbeiten. Insbesondere betrifft das den "Schicksalsrahmen", der impliziert, dass undurchschaubare Mächte das Leben der Menschen steuern. Es kann gezeigt werden, wie dieser Rahmen als Typ in mehreren Familienfällen und geschlechtsdifferenziert auffindbar ist. Weiterhin werden Bestandteile dieses Typs unter neuen Randbedingungen in der nächsten Generation jeweils übernommen und zugleich verändert.
Inhalt: In the social science discourse milieus are related to the description of social status: in general "higher" and "lower" milieus are identified. The knowledge concerning "higher" situated milieus is still more defined than the information available on "lower" milieus; in fact everyday assumptions or even prejudices are applied frequently when regarding those milieus. Backed by the example of several family histories including three generations who have experienced poverty in rural areas in the North-East of the Federal Republic of Germany these milieus are being scrutinized. The study is founded on Ralf Bohnsack's milieu concept, which bases the reconstruction of milieus strongly on structural identities of the individuals' lives and their history of socialisation. The reconstruction of several family histories reveals frames of orientation, influencing the life of people across generations. Especially a frame of orientation including a fateful attitude to life could be reconstructed, which seems to determinate the life and decisions of people via inscrutable powers. This type was discerned in various families. Considerable gender differences appeared. Moreover it can be shown how this type is adopted and transformed by the next generation.
Schlagwörter:transformation; Tradition; soziales Milieu; strukturschwache Region; underdeveloped region; generation; social milieu; ländlicher Raum; Transformation; Generation; Armut; Familie; Sozialisation; Federal Republic of Germany; socialization; rural area; family; neue Bundesländer; Biographie; New Federal States; biography; tradition; poverty; ländliche Milieus; Familientraditionen; Schicksalsrahmen
SSOAR Kategorie:Allgemeine Soziologie, Makrosoziologie, spezielle Theorien und Schulen, Entwicklung und Geschichte der Soziologie, Agrarsoziologie