ABSTRACT

Following the passage of the Minneapolis Sick and Safe Leave city ordinance, a community-based participatory research (CBPR) project was launched to examine the perceived accessibility and usage of paid sick leave by African American employed caregivers as a work-based family support tool. This paper presents qualitative findings from the Paid Sick Leave and African American Families study, in which four focus groups (n = 32) were conducted. Participants were employed African American caregivers from the Minneapolis metropolitan area. Participants discussed how the intersections of their work and family environments and how their families created family-level meaning making around employment, income, and family caregiving. Themes that arose from the focus groups were: (1) an importance of defining family for themselves expressed through kin affinity and family ascribed membership, (2) an expressed desire for their family to be together, (3) family prioritization over work conditions they felt was inconsiderate of their personal or family sense of worth and (4) family legacy expressed as the culmination of families’ prioritization, togetherness, and defined membership and is the intergenerational transmission of the family’s, identity. Implications for future research and policy are presented.

摘要

随着明尼阿波利斯病假和安全休假城市条例的通过，一项以社区为基础的参与式研究 (CBPR) 项目启动，以检查非裔美国人雇佣的护理人员作为基于工作的家庭支持工具的带薪病假的可及性和使用情况。本文介绍了带薪病假和非裔美国人家庭研究的定性结果，其中四个焦点小组（n = 32) 进行。参与者是来自明尼阿波利斯都会区的非裔美国人护理人员。参与者讨论了他们的工作和家庭环境的交叉点以及他们的家庭如何围绕就业、收入和家庭照顾创造家庭层面的意义。焦点小组提出的主题是：（1）通过亲属关系和家庭归属成员来表达为自己定义家庭的重要性，（2）表达对家庭在一起的渴望，（3）家庭优先于他们的工作条件感觉没有考虑到他们的个人或家庭的价值感，以及 (4) 家庭遗产表示为家庭优先考虑、团结和明确的成员资格的高潮，是家庭身份的代际传递。