Making Home : Strategies, Tactics and Daily Practices of Children from Separated Parents, Living in Equal Shared Custody Agreements in Belgium

Nobels, Bérengère
(2018) XIX ISA World Congress of Sociology. Power, Violence and Justice: reflections, responses, responsabilities — Location: Toronto, Canada (15.July.2018)

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Since the 1960s, the definition of the family has changed greatly. From the nuclear family, immobile and sedentary, associated with a single place of residence, we move on to a wider and more mobile family associated with different places of residence (Widmer and al., 2008). As part of my doctoral thesis, I am particularly interested in these multilocal families and more specifically in the way in which the children from separated parents, living in equal shared custody agreements, maintain their family relations from one house to the other (Schier and al., 2015). Considering children as social actors (Gullov and al., 2015, James and Prout, 1997), I aim at understanding how they define and construct their 'home' in this context of circular mobility. My field of research is conducted in Belgium (Brussels and its periphery), with children aged 10 to 16 years. I mobilize with them a visual and participatory method (drawing) and others coming from social geography (Socio-spatial network game, Go-Along Method). Participating in this session was an opportunity for me to share some preliminary results about a central dimension of my research project: how these children, for whom their different living spaces are fragmented and multiplied, establish potentially links between them, what represent here, there and the in-between for them, how an “archipélisation” of these different living spaces is created (Duchêne- Lacroix, 2010). I highlighted different strategies, tactics and daily practices that children would develop to deal with these absences and presences and to establish links as well as ruptures inside these spaces (Schier and al., 2015; Winther, 2015).
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Nobels, B. (2018). Making Home : Strategies, Tactics and Daily Practices of Children from Separated Parents, Living in Equal Shared Custody Agreements in Belgium. XIX ISA World Congress of Sociology. Power, Violence and Justice: reflections, responses, responsabilities, Toronto, Canada. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/51539