Helma Lutz

Abstract

Over the last two decades many studies have focused on female migrants’ transnational care practices, while those of stay-behind fathers have hardly been investigated. This chapter deals with masculinity, childcare and fatherhood of stay-behind male partners of female migrants from former socialist countries in Europe. A discussion of the particularities of gender regimes in socialist and postsocialist Europe will be followed by a presentation of three case studies on fatherhood and lone parenting. The article concludes with a discussion of “mothering fathers’” predicaments in a postsocialist situation.

Keywords

Childcare, discrimination, emotional labour, families, gender, masculinity, migrant workers, socialist feminism

From: Critical Sociology 2019 44 (7-8)

Editor: Wang Yi