Caring Fathers in the Global Context

Petteri Eerola is Senior Lecturer of Education (Family Research and Qualitative Methods) at the University of Jyväskylä and Honorary Associate Professor at the Social Research Institute, University College London. Katherine Twamley is Professor of Sociology at the Social Research Institute, University College London. Henna Pirskanen is Associate Professor of Social Work at the University of Lapland. Pedro Romero-Balsas is Associate Professor of Sociology at the Autonomous University of Madrid.

“A nuanced and necessary exploration of contemporary fatherhood, bringing together diverse perspectives on fathers and care from around the globe.” Karla Elliott, Monash University

• Foreword (Margaret O’Brien, University College London)Part I: Introduction to Caring Fatherhood1. Why study fathers and care? - Katherine Twamley, Petteri Eerola, Pedro Romero-Balsas & Henna Pirskanen2. The who, what and how of care in caring fatherhood: an ecological care ethics approach - Andrea DoucetPart II: Understandings and Practices of Good Fatherhood and Care3. ‘He is our handyman’: young people’s narratives on caring fatherhood and family life in the Faroe Islands - Firouz Gaini4. Changing fatherhood and gender roles in Somali families: experiences of being fathered in Somalia and in the diaspora - Marja Tiilikainen5. Moving beyond the narrative of marginalised fatherhood: Russian fathers' accounts of nonresident fathering after family separation - Ekaterina Ivanova 6. Hegemonic, caring or hybrid fathers? The case of Polish fathers of adult children in ‘the empty nest’ - Magdalena Żadkowska, Radosław Kossakowski & Bogna Dowgiałło7. Berry-picking fathers and burdened mothers: parenting modes in dual-income households of urban China during the COVID-19 pandemic - Guanli Zhang, Bingyi Zhang & Lichao YangPart III: Exploring What Facilitates or Inhibits Fathers' Care8. Fathers on the ‘night shift’? Understanding caring fatherhood through parents’ interpretative repertoires of night-time care - Petteri Eerola, Armi Mustosmäki & Henna Pirskanen9. What happens when fathers are at home? Learning from families’ accounts of COVID-19 lockdown in the UK and South Africa - Katherine Twamley & Sadiyya Haffejee10. ‘Being there’ as providers and caregivers: caring masculinities in parenting and partnering among young fathers in the UK - Anna Tarrant, Linzi Ladlow & Laura Way11. Gendered framings of responsibility for care and the availability of leave policies for fathers from a global perspective - Alison Koslowski12. Gender role attitudes, perceptions of parenthood and father’s parental leave use in Finland - Miia Saarikallio-Torp, Johanna Lammi-Taskula, Anneli Miettinen, Johanna Närvi & Ella SihvonenPart IV: Minoritised Fathers and Care13. Syrian refugee dads in the UK: gendered practises of ‘involvement’ - Tina Miller & Esther Dermott14. Reconstruction of fatherhood in a strange land: exploring fathering practices of Chinese migrants in Spain - Mengyao Wu & Alberto Del Rey Poveda15. Refugee fathers’ parenting to protect, nurture and train under resettlement in Sweden - Disa Bergnehr16. Queer fathers and parents’ caring path to parenthood in the Netherlands and Switzerland - Carole Ammann17. Fathers caring in families with children with disabilities - Jesús Rogero-García, Gerardo Meil & Pedro Romero-Balsas18. Accounting for lack of emotional engagement: adults reconceptualising fatherhood - Ann Phoenix19. Conclusions: Towards more nuanced understandings of fathers’ care - Petteri Eerola, Henna Pirskanen, Pedro Romero-Balsas & Katherine Twamley