Parents at their best: The ethopolitics of family bonding in France

Roux, Sébastiên; Vozari, Anne-Sophie

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“…Having said that, research indicates that the experience of being caught between conflicting norms and practices of the state and family applies for a variety of immigrant youths (Mørck, 2000; Waltorp, 2015), as well as national identities other than the Palestinians, e.g. Turks (Sparre and Rytter, forthcoming), Somalis (Matthiesen, 2015) and Pakistanis (Rytter, 2013). Hence, while the chronic and punitive character of the double-bind may be specific to the parents in my study, we must acknowledge the common nature of immigrants’ experiences of having to balance irreconcilable demands embedded in cross-cultural complexity.…”

Section: Methodology and Ethicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Fraught parenting: Immigrant parents’ chronic double-bind in Denmark

Johansen

2019

Ethnography

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This article explores how a group of immigrant parents in Denmark’s largest social housing project, Gellerupparken, are caught in a chronic double-bind position. The parents are straddling two sets of social norms and rationalities on proper parenting—that of the Danish welfare state and that of the local immigrant community—and their success of becoming attuned to the social norms of one particular relationship inevitably leads to their experience of radical othering in another relationship. This places them in a doubly marginal position and makes their parenting practices fraught with dilemmas and anxieties. I argue that the notion of the double-bind provides us with a heuristic for understanding the parents’ everyday experiences of marginality, stressing that marginalization is not only to be understood as produced by and productive of the state, but by the interface between the state and vitally important actors in the immigrant community and family.

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Section: Methodology and Ethicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Fraught parenting: Immigrant parents’ chronic double-bind in Denmark

Johansen

2019

Ethnography

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“…Through the trainings and other practices, the psychobureaucrats assist in the carers' efforts to become successful caregivers (Krawczak, 2022). The carers are set in an interactional framework with the publicly formulated expectations each time they try to perform good care for their children (Roux and Vozari, 2017). The adoption centers have been gradually integrating new psy-knowledge into practice.…”

Section: The Biopolitical Bureaucracymentioning

confidence: 99%

Psychiatrization of adoption practices in contemporary Poland

Witeska-Młynarczyk

2022

Front. Sociol.

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In this article, I propose to take a closer look at the practices of kinning in the context of adoption in contemporary Poland. I am interested in the social production of this ‘unfamiliar kind of kinship' and the positions of various actors involved in defining the “adoptable” children and the “families of excess” capable of adopting. My focus will be on the ways in which the psy-knowledge and practices are implied in these social processes of defining and delimiting the norm, the proper, and the ideal. This process can be called a progressing psychiatrization of kinning, this time developing on a specific terrain of adoption (i.e., the most desired state of exception from ideal family—nuclear, heteronormative, based around married, and non-divorced couple). I will consider both top-down and bottom-up processes within which the individuals, state institutions, and psy-knowledge interact. Thus, I propose to look at a sub-process of psychiatrization, which takes place in the specific ethnographic context at the intersection of family and social policies, medicalization and psychologization of familial relations, and troubled, disconnected biographies. Throughout the article, I discuss how the adoptive families become patient-consumers within the system of healthcare. It is despite the fact that when they enter the adoption network, they start to take part in the political process of solving the social problem. In fact, they become a part of the network, which enables privatization of the social problem and works toward individualizing the responsibility for solving it.

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“…First, ethnographies of French parenting support policy have pointed out the accentuated role of speech and talk (Giuliani, 2014; Pothet, 2015; Roux and Vozari, 2018). They show that professionals direct parents to talk transparently about themselves (Giuliani, 2014) or take-up a reflexive stance towards the self through particular ways of verbalizing feelings (Pothet, 2015; Roux and Vozari, 2018). In this line of analysis, getting parents to talk about themselves is a governmental technique.…”

Section: The Confession and The Transistormentioning

confidence: 99%

Circuiting parents’ voice: Parenting discussion groups and institutional healing in northeast Paris

Vollebergh

2020

Ethnography

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The discussion group is a common form of parenting support offered by associations in the pluri-ethnic, working-class neighborhoods of northeast Paris. Situated in a larger formation of voice that hails marginalized parents to speak, professionals engage with these discussion groups as potential social ‘transistors’: simultaneously circuiting parents’ voice inwards to restore parents’ agentive capacities and amplifying it outwards into an audible collective voice aimed at impacting state–citizen relations. In order to reach this double effect, professionals deploy ‘paralinguistic techniques’, which produce and combine intimate and civic, normative and alternative (semi-)public speech contexts. As a result, discussion groups emerge as pedagogical instances of a ‘Republican’ public sphere and its reworkings. Against the backdrop of anxieties of a disintegrating Republic and failing institutions, discussion groups highlight a desire for new conduits of citizenship, as well as the ways in which marginalized residents are called upon to invest these with their voice.

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Parents at their best: The ethopolitics of family bonding in France

Cited by 14 publications

References 18 publications

Fraught parenting: Immigrant parents’ chronic double-bind in Denmark

Fraught parenting: Immigrant parents’ chronic double-bind in Denmark

Psychiatrization of adoption practices in contemporary Poland

Circuiting parents’ voice: Parenting discussion groups and institutional healing in northeast Paris

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