Maren Bak – författare

Hur barn påverkas av migration är något vi har relativt liten kunskap om, både nationellt och internationellt. I Norden lever de flesta barn sina liv som barn gör mest, i en vardag som rymmer lek, skola och familjeliv. Men det finns ­erfarenheter som påtagligt påverkar tillvaron för vissa barn; migration är en sådan erfarenhet.

Vilka strategier utvecklar barn för att ­hantera sin situation i samband med migration?

Hur hanterar samhällets mottagande institutioner den utsatthet och brist på rättigheter som ytterst styr migrerande barns liv?

Författare: Kristina Alstam, Maren Bak, Berit Berg, Kerstin von Brömssen, Ulla Björnberg, Ingrid Fioretos, Kristina Gustafsson, Olga Keselman, Birgitte Romme Larsen, Hilde Liden, Anna Lundberg, Eva Norström, Lutine de Wal Pastoor, Layal Kasselias Wiltgren, Kathrine Vitus.

Originally published in 1989, this cross-national study investigates the role and pattern of family life in fourteen countries in contemporary Europe. Providing a wealth of information on European families, it is a key source for anyone wishing to understand the changes in the family at that time.

The contributors argue that, far from withering away, the family remained a very important social unit which continued to have considerable influence on other social institutions such as the state and the labour market. The central theme is the interrelation between changes in production and working life on one hand, and changes in family life and reproduction on the other. The contributors focus on the pressures and contradictions produced by the division of functions between family and work, and on problems which have arisen as a consequence of the sometimes incompatible and even conflicting demands of the two institutions. They show that the evolution of the nuclear family model in Europe had led to a great diversity of family patterns, and conclude that the family in modern European societies still had a contribution to make which no other institution could provide.

Originally published in 1989, this cross-national study investigates the role and pattern of family life in fourteen countries in contemporary Europe. Providing a wealth of information on European families, it is a key source for anyone wishing to understand the changes in the family at that time.

The contributors argue that, far from withering away, the family remained a very important social unit which continued to have considerable influence on other social institutions such as the state and the labour market. The central theme is the interrelation between changes in production and working life on one hand, and changes in family life and reproduction on the other. The contributors focus on the pressures and contradictions produced by the division of functions between family and work, and on problems which have arisen as a consequence of the sometimes incompatible and even conflicting demands of the two institutions. They show that the evolution of the nuclear family model in Europe had led to a great diversity of family patterns, and conclude that the family in modern European societies still had a contribution to make which no other institution could provide.