Fathering and Conjugality in Transnational Patchwork Families : the Angola/Portugal case
Year: 2014
Type: other
Abstract: This paper explores long-distance fatherhood and the father-child relationships in transnational families between Angola and Portugal. Using evidence for the Portugal/Angola case in the second work package of the TCRAf-Eu project, we discuss the division of parental duties based on established gender roles (mother as caregiver and father as bread-winner) and how they are reconstructed in the long-distance context in which there are very few mothers living abroad: in our sample, the overwhelming majority of parents living in Portugal with children in Angola are fathers. Relational reconfigurations induced by absence are not always expected or controlled as changing roles within the family. We argue that besides the economic situation, conjugality and family gendered dynamics are crucial to an understanding of long-distance fatherhood practices and the long-distance father/child relationship
Authors: Marzia Grassi, Jeanne Vivet
Language: English
Subfield: Demography
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2132867622