Wissö Therése, Bäck-Wiklund Margareta
Department of Social Work, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden.
Front Sociol. 2021 Aug 11;6:721881. doi: 10.3389/fsoc.2021.721881. eCollection 2021.
This article explores fathering practices among Syrian refugee families in Sweden. Syrian refugees provide an example of people who migrated because of a single major event: the war in Syria. The article examines the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on fathering practices. The Swedish COVID-19 strategy differed from those adopted in many other countries. Lockdowns were minimal and were not stringently enforced, based on the assumption that individuals would trust the authorities and would take personal responsibility for complying with their guidelines and recommendations. Previous research suggests that migrants and other vulnerable groups were not always well informed about the public policies introduced prior to and during the pandemic. The article draws on empirical data from a wider research project on the family lives of Syrian migrants in Sweden. The authors present their findings from an analysis of eleven ethnographically informed semi-structured interviews, carried out before and during the pandemic, with married fathers who had been living in Sweden for several years. In this article, they focus on three cases representing fathers with varied educational backgrounds and employment histories. These families had in common what are considered by Swedish standards to be overcrowded living conditions; they were forced to accept close family proximity, both physically and emotionally, as they no longer had the supportive networks they were used to in Syria. The three fathers were found to rely more heavily on information provided by the people with whom they were in contact in Sweden than on policies and recommendations from the authorities. These findings confirmed that the previous experiences among refugees of shifting policies regarding migration and integration had lowered their trust in government. They had learnt that they needed to rely on mutual dependency not only between spouses, but also between parents and children.
本文探讨了瑞典叙利亚难民家庭中的育儿方式。叙利亚难民是因单一重大事件——叙利亚战争而移民的人群的一个例子。本文考察了新冠疫情对育儿方式的影响。瑞典的新冠疫情应对策略与许多其他国家采用的策略不同。基于个人会信任当局并会对遵守其指导方针和建议承担个人责任的假设，封锁措施 minimal 且执行并不严格。此前的研究表明，移民和其他弱势群体对疫情之前及期间出台的公共政策并非总是了解充分。本文借鉴了一个关于瑞典叙利亚移民家庭生活的更广泛研究项目的实证数据。作者呈现了他们对 11 次民族志式半结构化访谈的分析结果，这些访谈在疫情之前及期间进行，对象是已在瑞典生活数年的已婚父亲。在本文中，他们聚焦于三个案例，这些案例代表了教育背景和就业经历各异的父亲。按照瑞典标准，这些家庭的共同之处在于居住条件被认为过于拥挤；由于他们不再拥有在叙利亚时习惯的支持网络，他们被迫在身体和情感上都接受家庭成员的紧密相处。研究发现，这三位父亲更依赖于他们在瑞典与之接触的人提供的信息，而非当局的政策和建议。这些发现证实，难民此前在移民和融入政策方面的经历变化降低了他们对政府的信任。他们明白，他们不仅需要依赖配偶之间的相互依存，还需要依赖父母与子女之间的相互依存。
