Negotiating independence and tradition: Plans for career, marriage and family among daughters of immigrants enrolled in higher education in Norway.

Autor/in	Kindt, Marianne Takvam
Titel	Negotiating independence and tradition: Plans for career, marriage and family among daughters of immigrants enrolled in higher education in Norway. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Aushandlung von Unabhängigkeit und Tradition: Pläne für Karriere, Eheschließung und Familie der Töchter von Einwanderern, die studieren, in Norwegen.
Quelle	In: Journal of ethnic and migration studies, 48 (2019) 11, 17 S. PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1369-183X; 1469-9451
DOI	10.1080/1369183X.2019.1590186
Schlagwörter	Familie; Familienplanung; Frau; Migrationshintergrund; Beruf; Karriereplanung; Hochschulbildung; Generationenverhältnis; Generationswechsel; Kulturabhängigkeit; Tradition; Ausländerin; Junger Erwachsener; Student; Norwegen
Abstract	"Concerns about the integration of minority migrant populations in Western Europe often form around issues of gender inequity. One particular concern is linked to educated minority women's work participation upon family formation. Based on 16 in-depth interviews with young adult daughters of immigrants in Norway, all enrolled in prestigious educational tracks, I ask: What do they plan for regarding their future family and work situations, and how are their parents' wishes and expectations present in these plans? My findings suggest that the interviewees plan to pursue a prestigious career simultaneously as they want to enter a within-group, parent-assisted marriage. The aim of the article is to investigate how these women make sense of this situation, negotiating between what is often perceived to be 'an independent choice' and more traditional behaviour. By drawing on narratives that blur the boundaries between an 'arranged' and a 'romantic' marriage, these women challenge the alleged opposition between traditional family formation and women's occupational success, and further insist on the capability of being successfully integrated without it entailing a full liberation from their family's customs. The accommodative features of these narratives are, however, potentially challenged by the use of another narrative, 'it has to be love'." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2019/4