Abstract
This paper aims to explore the strategies Albanian migrant parents in Greece employ to reconcile their work and childcare responsibilities. The institutional context, the informal work setting, and the agency of the migrants all play crucial roles in their childcare arrangements. This research draws on 36 biographical interviews conducted during 2014–2016 with parents in Greece. Our findings suggest that migrants use different coping strategies to manage their work and care responsibilities. These strategies include mother-centred strategies or mothers making career sacrifices to meet their care responsibilities, shared parenting, relying on extended family and friends, delegating care to older children, leaving children to care for themselves, taking children to work, and transnational care practices. This study shows how care arrangement options were constrained and continuously shaped by migration, care, gender, and labour regimes.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 815-835 |
| Number of pages | 21 |
| Journal | Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue number | 5 |
| Early online date | 9 Mar 2022 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2022 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This article is supported by Regional Research Promotion Programme (RRPP). TheRRPP is coordinated and operated by the Interfaculty Institute for Central and Eastern Europe (IICEE) at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland). The programme is fully funded by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), Federal Department ofForeign Affairs.
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