Some members of the list may be interested of a new report that
describes and analyses care arrangements of dual-career families in
Europe, particularly in Finland, France, Italy, Portugal and the UK.
This comparative qualitative report is based on 124 original interviews
with families where both partners are working in positions or
occupations that require plenty of time and commitment. At the same
time, these families are caring for children or older family members or
both. The report is freely available at
http://www.uta.fi/laitokset/sospol/soccare/ together with national
reports from each of the five countries.
The report was produced for the European Commission as a part of the
SOCCARE Project. The SOCCARE Project is a comparative research project
funded by FP5, Socio-Economic Key Action. It studies the strategies of
European families to combine informal and formal care with participation
in paid employment. Main partners of the project are Jorma Sipilä
(Tampere), Claude Martin (Rennes), Rossana Trifiletti (Florence), Karin
Wall (Lisbon) and John Baldock (Kent)
In addition to the dual-career family reports, national reports of the
next phase of the project are already available at the same address.
This phase focuses on care arrangements of migrant families. As well,
the site offers earlier reports on childcare arrangements of lone parent
families and a review of comparative social care research.
The SOCCARE Project organises a one-day conference about its findings in
Brussels on Monday, 19 May 2003. If members of this list are interested
to participate in this seminar, please contact me. Unfortunately, the
project is not able to cover travel or accommodation costs of
participants.
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Teppo Kröger
Department of Social Policy and Social Work
University of Tampere, Finland
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