‘Quality Time’ in Nanny Families : Local Care Loops and New Inequalities in Sweden
(2022) In Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life p.85-107- Abstract
- Political initiatives such as tax deductions for domestic services including nannies have, together with a growing au pair market, paved the way for new possibilities of organizing child care and parenting in Sweden. This affects everyday ‘local care loops’ for the upper-middle-class families purchasing the services, as the logistics of solving the work-family dilemma change with the possibility of hiring cheap female—and often migrant—care workers (Näre & Isaksen 2019). In this chapter, we analyse how this affects the doing of family in ‘nanny families’. Taking our point of departure in a qualitative study with nannies and au pairs (n = 26), parents (n = 29), and children receiving care (n = 19) (Eldén and Anving 2019), we show how... (More)
- Political initiatives such as tax deductions for domestic services including nannies have, together with a growing au pair market, paved the way for new possibilities of organizing child care and parenting in Sweden. This affects everyday ‘local care loops’ for the upper-middle-class families purchasing the services, as the logistics of solving the work-family dilemma change with the possibility of hiring cheap female—and often migrant—care workers (Näre & Isaksen 2019). In this chapter, we analyse how this affects the doing of family in ‘nanny families’. Taking our point of departure in a qualitative study with nannies and au pairs (n = 26), parents (n = 29), and children receiving care (n = 19) (Eldén and Anving 2019), we show how everyday care is experienced and understood from the perspective of different actors involved in the practice, with a special focus on ideas of ‘quality time’. We argue that the new possibilities of organizing care and time in families reproduce inequalities: the new local care loops enable the possibility for some—well-off—parents to realize ideals of ‘good and stress-free parenting’, with quality time with their children, while at the same time not giving up on the idea of gender equality. (Less)
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- author
- Eldén, Sara LU and Anving, Terese LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2022-03-01
- type
- Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- domestic work, Child Care, Domestic workers, Parenting, children, quality time, au pairer, nannies/au pairs, Inequalities, family, Sweden
- host publication
- Care Loops and Mobilities in Nordic, Central, and Eastern European Welfare States
- series title
- Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life
- editor
- Näre, Lena and Widding Isaksen, Lise
- pages
- 22 pages
- publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- external identifiers
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- scopus:85126538923
- ISSN
- 2731-6459
- 2731-6440
- ISBN
- 978-3-030-92888-9
- 978-3-030-92889-6
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-92889-6_5
- project
- Care for children in an era of private market services: A study of nannies, children and parents
- Family, Migration and Welfare
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
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- 7faf91e8-1fe8-468e-b7b4-f6a16e13c520
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author = {{Eldén, Sara and Anving, Terese}},
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keywords = {{domestic work; Child Care; Domestic workers; Parenting; children; quality time; au pairer; nannies/au pairs; Inequalities; family; Sweden}},
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title = {{‘Quality Time’ in Nanny Families : Local Care Loops and New Inequalities in Sweden}},
url = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-92889-6_5}},
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