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Parental absence: Intergenerational tensions and contestations of social grants in South Africa
Critical Social Policy ( IF 1.802 ) Pub Date : 2019-08-26 , DOI: 10.1177/0261018319867583
Mokoene Ziphora Kearabetswe 1 , Khunou Grace 1
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Most recently, the role of grandmothers has been highlighted as significant in the lives of their grandchildren in South Africa. Studies have previously highlighted the contribution the Old Age Grant makes in contexts of poverty, orphanhood and the migrant labour system. Similarly, studies on the Child Support Grant (CSG) have illustrated its contribution to the well-being of children and families in general. However, missing in these examinations has been an understanding of how the CSG is contested in contexts of parental absence due to internal labour migration. Through a thematic content analysis of qualitative interviews with members of migrants’ families, this article illustrates that in the context of internal labour migration, family responsibilities shift in ways that make unemployed grandmothers who do not receive the Old Age Grant vulnerable. This vulnerability is manifested through a tension in familial relationships. This tension stem from the contestation of the CSG by young labour-migrant mothers, the guardian (grandmother), and the beneficiaries of the CSG. The article concludes that these tensions result from continuing socio-economic struggles experienced by poor households.

中文翻译:

父母缺席:南非社会补助的代际紧张和争论

最近,祖母在南非孙辈生活中的作用被强调为重要。此前的研究强调了老年补助金在贫困、孤儿和移民劳动力制度方面的贡献。同样,对儿童抚养补助金 (CSG) 的研究也说明了其对儿童和家庭整体福祉的贡献。然而,在这些考试中缺少对 CSG 如何在由于内部劳动力迁移而导致父母缺席的情况下受到质疑的理解。本文通过对移民家庭成员的定性访谈的主题内容分析,说明在国内劳务移民的背景下,家庭责任的转变使没有领取老年补助金的失业祖母变得脆弱。这种脆弱性通过家庭关系的紧张表现出来。这种紧张源于年轻的打工者母亲、监护人(祖母)和 CSG 的受益人对 CSG 的争论。文章的结论是,这些紧张局势是贫困家庭不断经历的社会经济斗争造成的。
更新日期:2019-08-26
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