Local and Transnational Care Relations: Relatedness and Family Practice among Au Pairs in Denmark
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Local and Transnational Care Relations : Relatedness and Family Practice among Au Pairs in Denmark. / Dalgas, Karina Märcher; Olwig, Karen Fog.
In: Global Networks: A Journal of Transnational Affairs, Vol. 15, No. 4, 10.2015, p. 469-484.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Local and Transnational Care Relations
T2 - Relatedness and Family Practice among Au Pairs in Denmark
AU - Dalgas, Karina Märcher
AU - Olwig, Karen Fog
PY - 2015/10
Y1 - 2015/10
N2 - An increasing number of young women from the Global South have become au pairs in the Global North since the turn of the millennium. Through ethnographic analysis of three cases of au pairing in Denmark, involving Filipina and Caribbean women, this article discusses the nature of the local as well as transnational family relations in which these women are embedded as au pairs, and the opportunities and restraints that they present. We use anthropological theory to conceptualize family and kinship in terms of notions and practices of relatedness. This offers a useful framework for elucidating the different moral and contractual obligations and expectations associated with these varying family relations, the power asymmetries with which they are linked, and the agency that the au pairs display as they seek to position themselves in the most favourable way in relation to the multi-directional ties in which they are involved.
AB - An increasing number of young women from the Global South have become au pairs in the Global North since the turn of the millennium. Through ethnographic analysis of three cases of au pairing in Denmark, involving Filipina and Caribbean women, this article discusses the nature of the local as well as transnational family relations in which these women are embedded as au pairs, and the opportunities and restraints that they present. We use anthropological theory to conceptualize family and kinship in terms of notions and practices of relatedness. This offers a useful framework for elucidating the different moral and contractual obligations and expectations associated with these varying family relations, the power asymmetries with which they are linked, and the agency that the au pairs display as they seek to position themselves in the most favourable way in relation to the multi-directional ties in which they are involved.
KW - Faculty of Social Sciences
KW - au pair
KW - care
KW - kinship
KW - relatedness
KW - transnational family
U2 - 10.1111/glob.12074
DO - 10.1111/glob.12074
M3 - Journal article
VL - 15
SP - 469
EP - 484
JO - Global Networks
JF - Global Networks
SN - 1470-2266
IS - 4
ER -
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