1st Edition
Family Life in Transition Borders, Transnational Mobility, and Welfare Society in Nordic Countries
1. Introduction: The Changing Welfare State
Kati Turtiainen, Johanna Hiitola, Sabine Gruber, and Marja Tiilikainen
2. Decoupling Spheres of Belonging in the Nordic Welfare States
Valtteri Vähä-Savo
Part 1: Welfare State and Services
3. Guiding Migrant Parents in Nordic Welfare States – Cases from Norway and Sweden
Beret Bråten, Kristina Gustafsson, and Silje Sønsterudbråten
4. Urban Sámi Families in Finland – Crossing Borders with Languages
Tuuli Miettunen
5. Migrant Families, Integration, and Borders in the Swedish Foster Care Service
Sabine Gruber
6. Lithuanian Families in Norway and their Fear of the Child Protection Agency
Marit Aure and Darius Daukšas
7. Representations of Mothering of Migrant Finns
Minna Zechner and Tiina Tiilikka
Part 2: Transnational Families
8. Transnational Commuting of Estonian Men in Two Generations
Keiu Telve
9. The Role of Trust and Reciprocity in Transnational Care Towards Children
Charlotte Melander, Oksana Shmulyar Gréen, and Ingrid Höjer
10. Everyday Transnational Russian–Finnish Family Relations in a Finnish Rural Border Area
Olga Davydova-Minguet and Pirjo Pöllänen
11. Temporality and Everyday (In)Security in the Lives of Separated Refugee Families
Johanna Leinonen and Saara Pellander
Part 3: Enacting Citizenship and Respectable Parenthood
12. Finnish Somali Fathers, Respectability, and Transnational Family Life
Marja Tiilikainen
13. Migrant Parents Enacting Citizenship in School–Home Collaboration
Marta Padovan-Özdemir and Barbara Noel Day
14. Khanevadehye Mohtaram: Iranian Migrant Parents Struggling for Respectability
Zeinab Karimi
15. Newcomer Mothering, Techniques of Citizenship, and Ambiguous Incorporation Regimes
Camilla Nordberg
16. Small Agency and Precarious Residency in Afghan Refugee Families
Johanna Hiitola, Kati Turtiainen, and Jaana Vuori
Biography
Johanna Hiitola is a Senior Lecturer in Social Work at Tampere University, Finland.
Kati Turtiainen is Senior Lecturer at the Kokkola University Consortium Chydenius, University of Jyväskylä, Finland, and the author of Possibilities of Trust and Recognition between Refugees and Authorities: Resettlement as a Part of Durable Solutions of Forced Migration.
Sabine Gruber is Lecturer in Social Work at Linköping University, Sweden.
Marja Tiilikainen is Senior Researcher at the Migration Institute of Finland and co-editor of Wellbeing of Transnational Muslim Families: Marriage, Law and Gender.
