Karin Wall
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 4101964 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Karin Wall |
| NOMBRES | Karin |
| APELLIDO | Wall |
| FIRMA | WALL K |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Lisbon |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6452-8352 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 23 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 128 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 21 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1994 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Immigrant Families
Sociologists have studied the effects of immigration policies and practices on immigrant families, and advanced our understanding of family reunification, the settlement of families, and integration challenges across different historical periods. More recent work on how gender and sexuality shape migrants' lives and rationales has shown that going beyond normative assumptions about the nuclear family can add crucial insights into the decision to …
Trends towards de-gendering leave use in Spain and Portugal
Leave policies have developed in South European countries quite differently across the region regarding their gender-equality orientation. This chapter focuses on how the objectives of de-gendering leave policies and fostering fathers' co-responsibility entered the policy arena and became a central objective of parenting leave policy reforms in Portugal and Spain. The main actors behind this process have been left-wing parties and social movement…
Household Diversity and the Impacts of Covid-19 on Families in Portugal
Throughout the world, the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted family routines, relationships, projects and sociability, threatening the health, income, social cohesion, and well-being of individuals and their families. Lockdown restrictions imposed during the first wave of the pandemic challenged the theories, concepts, and methods used by family sociologists and the intersecting fields of gender and social inequality. By restricting physical interaction…
Social Investment in an Age of Austerity
The focus of this article is on family policy reforms in four European countries – Austria, Finland, Portugal, and Slovenia – between 2008 and 2015. These years were marked by the ‘Great Recession’, and by the rise of the social-investment perspective. Social investment is an umbrella concept, though, and it is also somewhat ambiguous. This article distinguishes between different social-investment variants, which emerge from a focus on its intera…
Families and Personal Networks
This book critically assesses the main features of the modernization of family life and personal relationships by examining and comparing three European
Get your coat
Dressing is a fundamental independent living skill (ILS). Vision is an integrative sense which affords learning via sighted observation. Visual impairment (VI) denies/restricts access to learning via sight. As a result, children with VI and conditions where VI may be a component (e.g. Down syndrome (DS)) require structured, systematic support to develop ILS. The current study used a repeated-measures-intervention approach to examine the developme…
Atitudes face às licenças parentais em Portugal
As políticas públicas em matéria de licenças para cuidar de filhos menores sofreram alterações importantes nas últimas décadas. O objetivo deste artigo é analisar as atitudes da população portuguesa face às licenças parentais com base no inquérito ISSP sobre família e género de 2014. Partindo de várias perspetivas teóricas, identificam-se os fatores que influenciam as atitudes face à duração e à partilha das licenças. Os resultados mostram o impa…
Comparative Perspectives on Work-Life Balance and Gender Equality
Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging; Family; Gender Studies
Leave policies in Southern Europe
This contribution addresses the challenge of reviewing Southern European welfare states by analysing how developments in leave policies are generating common or divergent trends across Portugal, Spain, Italy and Greece. These societies offer a mixture of family patterns and family policies. Over the last decade they have developed significant work–family arrangements both in terms of parental leave and early education childcare services. The four…
Pat Thane and Tanya Evans
Changing meanings of family in personal relationships
Personal relationships are today less dependent on marriage and blood ties, with commitments going far beyond the nuclear co-resident family to include kin, non-kin and ex-kin. The aim of this article is to examine the meanings of family bonds by exploring the changing boundaries between kinship ties and a wider array of affinities, in a Southern European country with a specific pathway (Portugal). The authors begin by analysing the ties which in…
Parental Leave Policies, Gender Equity and Family Well-Being in Europe
Support, social networks and the family in Portugal
This article presents two major surveys, carried out in Portugal, on the inclusion of families and individuals in social networks of support and affinity. The first, dating from 1999, sought comprehensively to reconstruct families' social networks by mapping effective support relations. The second survey, fielded in 2009–10, followed a family configuration perspective which sought to reconstruct individuals' networks of close relationships, and t…
Geographical Mobility and Family Life
Geographical mobility is a well-established trend in European societies, and social theorists have put forward the hypothesis that mobility patterns have an impact on family trajectories and on their processes of pluralisation and individualisation. Using a life course perspective, the main aim of this article is to provide evidence of the impact of geographical mobility on family life in Portuguese society. The mobility and family trajectories o…
Portugal and Spain
Welfare state and family policy in Southern Europe has been much researched and analysed, however there has been no systematic effort to look, in an historical context, at the evolution of policies and the paths taken by the countries. As in other European countries, Spain and Portugal have moved away from the policies focusing on the ‘traditional’ male breadwinner model. However, the reconciliation of family policies and leave policies has not n…
Immigration, Welfare and Care in Portugal
The role of migrant women as domestic and care workers is a main characteristic of the feminisation of migration to southern Europe. This article aims to understand how and why current patterns of female migration to Portugal are a key element, driving increased flows of domestic workers. The article focuses first on the path followed by Portugal in the fields of immigration, employment, welfare-state developments and care arrangements, and then …
Immigrant Families
Overall, the sociology of immigrant families represents a significant lacuna in the research on international migration. Although migratory flows have been interpreted as complex negotiations involving a diversity of actors including the individual, the family, social and kin networks, the market, and the state, other topics have polarized the attention of the social sciences. The political, demographic, and economic conditions of sending and rec…
Fatherhood, Family and Work in Men's Lives
The main aim of this article is to understand how men living in couples with young children construct their roles and identities as fathers in the context of different types of family functioning. To explore this issue, our analytical framework examines the dynamics of fathering and of family functioning, thereby focusing on the interrelationships between men as fathers, partners and breadwinners. Drawing on data from a qualitative study carried …
Gender, Occupational Class and Work-life Conflict
Although people from different countries may report similar scores on measures of work–life conflict, the factors which give rise to conflict may in fact be very different. Full-time working respondents to the 2002 Family module International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) in both Portugal and Britain were assessed for country, gender and occupational class differences in work–life conflict, focusing on both work and domestic spheres. Two distinc…
Managing Work and Care
This paper explores the strategies used by immigrant families to reconcile work and care for young children in Finland, France, Italy and Portugal. Drawing upon interviews with couples or lone parents who have children below age ten, it shows that immigrant families rely on a diversity of work/care strategies. These strategies include extensive delegation of care (mostly to formal or non‐familial informal care), negotiation of care within the nuc…
Families and Informal Support Networks in Portugal
This article analyses informal support networks in Portugal. Using data from a national survey on families with children (1999), it explores the dynamics of support, in terms of the characteristics of, and variations in, families' experience of support. The analysis underlines the importance of social factors, such as the position of families in social and educational structures, and family variables, such as position in the life course, in deter…
Famílias no campo
É uma paisagem verde, de luminosidade variável mas intensa, salpicada de casas e fábricas, onde se desenham montes de baixo relevo, pequenas bouças de pinheiros, campos em rectângulo e uma variedade mal organizada de caminhos, atalhos e estradas. O que mais impressiona hoje no Baixo Minho é o movimento constante, de pessoas e veículos, dos que se deslocam dez, vinte ou trinta quilómetros para ir e vir do emprego, da escola ou da praia ao domingo.…
Peasant Stem Families in Northwestern Portugal
The article analyzes data on family forms and individual life experiences in two rural communities of the Baixo Minho (northwest Portugal) during the 20th century. It examines how social and economic differentiation shaped norms and practices, giving rise to a variety of family forms rather than a regional family pattern. The stem family is found to be characteristic of wealthy peasant farmers. Drawing on individual life histories in two differen…
Families and Informal Support Networks in Portugal
This article analyses informal support networks in Portugal. Using data from a national survey on families with children (1999), it explores the dynamics of support, in terms of the characteristics of, and variations in, families' experience of support. The analysis underlines the importance of social factors, such as the position of families in social and educational structures, and family variables, such as position in the life course, in deter…
Managing Work and Care
This paper explores the strategies used by immigrant families to reconcile work and care for young children in Finland, France, Italy and Portugal. Drawing upon interviews with couples or lone parents who have children below age ten, it shows that immigrant families rely on a diversity of work/care strategies. These strategies include extensive delegation of care (mostly to formal or non‐familial informal care), negotiation of care within the nuc…
Gender, Occupational Class and Work-life Conflict
Although people from different countries may report similar scores on measures of work–life conflict, the factors which give rise to conflict may in fact be very different. Full-time working respondents to the 2002 Family module International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) in both Portugal and Britain were assessed for country, gender and occupational class differences in work–life conflict, focusing on both work and domestic spheres. Two distinc…
Leave policies in Southern Europe
This contribution addresses the challenge of reviewing Southern European welfare states by analysing how developments in leave policies are generating common or divergent trends across Portugal, Spain, Italy and Greece. These societies offer a mixture of family patterns and family policies. Over the last decade they have developed significant work–family arrangements both in terms of parental leave and early education childcare services. The four…
Immigration, Welfare and Care in Portugal
The role of migrant women as domestic and care workers is a main characteristic of the feminisation of migration to southern Europe. This article aims to understand how and why current patterns of female migration to Portugal are a key element, driving increased flows of domestic workers. The article focuses first on the path followed by Portugal in the fields of immigration, employment, welfare-state developments and care arrangements, and then …
Changing meanings of family in personal relationships
Personal relationships are today less dependent on marriage and blood ties, with commitments going far beyond the nuclear co-resident family to include kin, non-kin and ex-kin. The aim of this article is to examine the meanings of family bonds by exploring the changing boundaries between kinship ties and a wider array of affinities, in a Southern European country with a specific pathway (Portugal). The authors begin by analysing the ties which in…
Support, social networks and the family in Portugal
This article presents two major surveys, carried out in Portugal, on the inclusion of families and individuals in social networks of support and affinity. The first, dating from 1999, sought comprehensively to reconstruct families' social networks by mapping effective support relations. The second survey, fielded in 2009–10, followed a family configuration perspective which sought to reconstruct individuals' networks of close relationships, and t…
Fatherhood, Family and Work in Men's Lives
The main aim of this article is to understand how men living in couples with young children construct their roles and identities as fathers in the context of different types of family functioning. To explore this issue, our analytical framework examines the dynamics of fathering and of family functioning, thereby focusing on the interrelationships between men as fathers, partners and breadwinners. Drawing on data from a qualitative study carried …
Geographical Mobility and Family Life
Geographical mobility is a well-established trend in European societies, and social theorists have put forward the hypothesis that mobility patterns have an impact on family trajectories and on their processes of pluralisation and individualisation. Using a life course perspective, the main aim of this article is to provide evidence of the impact of geographical mobility on family life in Portuguese society. The mobility and family trajectories o…
Peasant Stem Families in Northwestern Portugal
The article analyzes data on family forms and individual life experiences in two rural communities of the Baixo Minho (northwest Portugal) during the 20th century. It examines how social and economic differentiation shaped norms and practices, giving rise to a variety of family forms rather than a regional family pattern. The stem family is found to be characteristic of wealthy peasant farmers. Drawing on individual life histories in two differen…
Social Investment in an Age of Austerity
The focus of this article is on family policy reforms in four European countries – Austria, Finland, Portugal, and Slovenia – between 2008 and 2015. These years were marked by the ‘Great Recession’, and by the rise of the social-investment perspective. Social investment is an umbrella concept, though, and it is also somewhat ambiguous. This article distinguishes between different social-investment variants, which emerge from a focus on its intera…
Atitudes face às licenças parentais em Portugal
As políticas públicas em matéria de licenças para cuidar de filhos menores sofreram alterações importantes nas últimas décadas. O objetivo deste artigo é analisar as atitudes da população portuguesa face às licenças parentais com base no inquérito ISSP sobre família e género de 2014. Partindo de várias perspetivas teóricas, identificam-se os fatores que influenciam as atitudes face à duração e à partilha das licenças. Os resultados mostram o impa…
Peasant Stem Families in Northwestern Portugal
The article analyzes data on family forms and individual life experiences in two rural communities of the Baixo Minho (northwest Portugal) during the 20th century. It examines how social and economic differentiation shaped norms and practices, giving rise to a variety of family forms rather than a regional family pattern. The stem family is found to be characteristic of wealthy peasant farmers. Drawing on individual life histories in two differen…
Famílias no campo
É uma paisagem verde, de luminosidade variável mas intensa, salpicada de casas e fábricas, onde se desenham montes de baixo relevo, pequenas bouças de pinheiros, campos em rectângulo e uma variedade mal organizada de caminhos, atalhos e estradas. O que mais impressiona hoje no Baixo Minho é o movimento constante, de pessoas e veículos, dos que se deslocam dez, vinte ou trinta quilómetros para ir e vir do emprego, da escola ou da praia ao domingo.…
Families and Informal Support Networks in Portugal
This article analyses informal support networks in Portugal. Using data from a national survey on families with children (1999), it explores the dynamics of support, in terms of the characteristics of, and variations in, families' experience of support. The analysis underlines the importance of social factors, such as the position of families in social and educational structures, and family variables, such as position in the life course, in deter…
Managing Work and Care
This paper explores the strategies used by immigrant families to reconcile work and care for young children in Finland, France, Italy and Portugal. Drawing upon interviews with couples or lone parents who have children below age ten, it shows that immigrant families rely on a diversity of work/care strategies. These strategies include extensive delegation of care (mostly to formal or non‐familial informal care), negotiation of care within the nuc…
Immigrant Families
Overall, the sociology of immigrant families represents a significant lacuna in the research on international migration. Although migratory flows have been interpreted as complex negotiations involving a diversity of actors including the individual, the family, social and kin networks, the market, and the state, other topics have polarized the attention of the social sciences. The political, demographic, and economic conditions of sending and rec…
Fatherhood, Family and Work in Men's Lives
The main aim of this article is to understand how men living in couples with young children construct their roles and identities as fathers in the context of different types of family functioning. To explore this issue, our analytical framework examines the dynamics of fathering and of family functioning, thereby focusing on the interrelationships between men as fathers, partners and breadwinners. Drawing on data from a qualitative study carried …
Gender, Occupational Class and Work-life Conflict
Although people from different countries may report similar scores on measures of work–life conflict, the factors which give rise to conflict may in fact be very different. Full-time working respondents to the 2002 Family module International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) in both Portugal and Britain were assessed for country, gender and occupational class differences in work–life conflict, focusing on both work and domestic spheres. Two distinc…
Immigration, Welfare and Care in Portugal
The role of migrant women as domestic and care workers is a main characteristic of the feminisation of migration to southern Europe. This article aims to understand how and why current patterns of female migration to Portugal are a key element, driving increased flows of domestic workers. The article focuses first on the path followed by Portugal in the fields of immigration, employment, welfare-state developments and care arrangements, and then …
Portugal and Spain
Welfare state and family policy in Southern Europe has been much researched and analysed, however there has been no systematic effort to look, in an historical context, at the evolution of policies and the paths taken by the countries. As in other European countries, Spain and Portugal have moved away from the policies focusing on the ‘traditional’ male breadwinner model. However, the reconciliation of family policies and leave policies has not n…
Parental Leave Policies, Gender Equity and Family Well-Being in Europe
Support, social networks and the family in Portugal
This article presents two major surveys, carried out in Portugal, on the inclusion of families and individuals in social networks of support and affinity. The first, dating from 1999, sought comprehensively to reconstruct families' social networks by mapping effective support relations. The second survey, fielded in 2009–10, followed a family configuration perspective which sought to reconstruct individuals' networks of close relationships, and t…
Geographical Mobility and Family Life
Geographical mobility is a well-established trend in European societies, and social theorists have put forward the hypothesis that mobility patterns have an impact on family trajectories and on their processes of pluralisation and individualisation. Using a life course perspective, the main aim of this article is to provide evidence of the impact of geographical mobility on family life in Portuguese society. The mobility and family trajectories o…
Pat Thane and Tanya Evans
Changing meanings of family in personal relationships
Personal relationships are today less dependent on marriage and blood ties, with commitments going far beyond the nuclear co-resident family to include kin, non-kin and ex-kin. The aim of this article is to examine the meanings of family bonds by exploring the changing boundaries between kinship ties and a wider array of affinities, in a Southern European country with a specific pathway (Portugal). The authors begin by analysing the ties which in…
Leave policies in Southern Europe
This contribution addresses the challenge of reviewing Southern European welfare states by analysing how developments in leave policies are generating common or divergent trends across Portugal, Spain, Italy and Greece. These societies offer a mixture of family patterns and family policies. Over the last decade they have developed significant work–family arrangements both in terms of parental leave and early education childcare services. The four…
Comparative Perspectives on Work-Life Balance and Gender Equality
Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging; Family; Gender Studies
Families and Personal Networks
This book critically assesses the main features of the modernization of family life and personal relationships by examining and comparing three European
Get your coat
Dressing is a fundamental independent living skill (ILS). Vision is an integrative sense which affords learning via sighted observation. Visual impairment (VI) denies/restricts access to learning via sight. As a result, children with VI and conditions where VI may be a component (e.g. Down syndrome (DS)) require structured, systematic support to develop ILS. The current study used a repeated-measures-intervention approach to examine the developme…
Atitudes face às licenças parentais em Portugal
As políticas públicas em matéria de licenças para cuidar de filhos menores sofreram alterações importantes nas últimas décadas. O objetivo deste artigo é analisar as atitudes da população portuguesa face às licenças parentais com base no inquérito ISSP sobre família e género de 2014. Partindo de várias perspetivas teóricas, identificam-se os fatores que influenciam as atitudes face à duração e à partilha das licenças. Os resultados mostram o impa…
Social Investment in an Age of Austerity
The focus of this article is on family policy reforms in four European countries – Austria, Finland, Portugal, and Slovenia – between 2008 and 2015. These years were marked by the ‘Great Recession’, and by the rise of the social-investment perspective. Social investment is an umbrella concept, though, and it is also somewhat ambiguous. This article distinguishes between different social-investment variants, which emerge from a focus on its intera…
Household Diversity and the Impacts of Covid-19 on Families in Portugal
Throughout the world, the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted family routines, relationships, projects and sociability, threatening the health, income, social cohesion, and well-being of individuals and their families. Lockdown restrictions imposed during the first wave of the pandemic challenged the theories, concepts, and methods used by family sociologists and the intersecting fields of gender and social inequality. By restricting physical interaction…
Trends towards de-gendering leave use in Spain and Portugal
Leave policies have developed in South European countries quite differently across the region regarding their gender-equality orientation. This chapter focuses on how the objectives of de-gendering leave policies and fostering fathers' co-responsibility entered the policy arena and became a central objective of parenting leave policy reforms in Portugal and Spain. The main actors behind this process have been left-wing parties and social movement…
Immigrant Families
Sociologists have studied the effects of immigration policies and practices on immigrant families, and advanced our understanding of family reunification, the settlement of families, and integration challenges across different historical periods. More recent work on how gender and sexuality shape migrants' lives and rationales has shown that going beyond normative assumptions about the nuclear family can add crucial insights into the decision to …
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