Changing Intergenerational Solidarities within Families in a Mediterranean Welfare State
Elderly Care in Italy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2305355 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Barbara Da Roit (0000-0002-1156-2549, University of Milan-Bicocca, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 55 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 251-269 |
| Publication date | 2007-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Current Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0011-3921 • E-ISSN: 1461-7064 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0011392107073306 |
| OpenAlex | W2099914161 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 48 |
| References cited | 15 |
Intergenerational solidarity within families is the traditional source of support for dependent elderly people in southern European countries, where care needs have been mainly fulfilled by the unpaid work of women. Recently, the decline of informal care and the persistent lack of supply of formal services have been accompanied by the growth of commercial services mostly provided by migrant women hired by families in the grey market. The article is based on a qualitative study and explores the social processes underlying these changes. It suggests that although intergenerational solidarity is still crucial, it is expressed less through the direct provision of care and more through the supervision of paid services. This shift, which results mainly from a strategy adopted by middle-class women, challenges traditional gender relations and divisions of work. Moreover, it produces employment relations characterized by low pay and underprotection and reflecting conflicts over time and space typically present in informal care relations
Care work · Economic growth · Economics · Gender relations · Labour economics · Paid work · Political science · Politics · Qualitative research · Social science · Sociology · Solidarity · State (computer science) · Welfare · Welfare state · Work (physics) · Employment and Welfare Studies · Gender Studies · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving · Law · Taxation and Compliance Studies
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| Unique citing works | 48 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,53 |
| Citation span | 2007 - 2025 (19) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 48 |