Gry Mette D. Haugen

Relations between Money and Love in Postdivorce Families Children's perspectives

This article examines and theorizes complex relations and trade-offs concerning money and love, arguing that childrens viewpoint can illuminate the question of money in postdivorce families in new and insightful ways. The analysis is inspired by ideas about economic sociology put forward by Marcia Millman and Viviana Zelizer. The article argues that childrens points of view challenge the traditional sociological division between money and love as two separate spheres. The article focuses on the meaning of money, and how money becomes a currency for both love and care, presenting the argument with both empirical examples and theoretical discussion.

Caring Children: Exploring Care in Post-Divorce Families

This article draws on information from in-depth interviews in addition to a survey from a Norwegian ‘Families after divorce’ study, in which the perspective of children and younger people are emphasized. We describe the complex relations between care-giving and care-receiving among children and adults in post-divorce families and challenge and nuance the traditional western picture that emphasizes children as the receivers of care and adults as care-givers. Inspired by the notion of ‘caringscapes’, the article seeks to incorporate the spatial and the temporal into the analysis of care and caring, and three ‘caring routes’ are identified: i) the ‘money squeeze route’, ii) the ‘emotional considerations route’ and iii) the ‘time squeeze’ route. The three routes are verified by the interview data as having both direct and indirect effects on the phenomenon of caring. We argue that childrens care-giving should be further investigated both empirically and theoretically and that a caringscapes approach might provide insight and departure for further research.

The Voice of the Child in Family Mediation: Norway and England

In the context of the growing use of mediation in many countries to resolve parental disputes in separation and divorce, this article considers the implications of mediation practice for the rights of the child and, in particular, the tension between Article 3 and Article 12. In order to highlight the potential influence of the UNCRC in ensuring that childrens article 12 rights are not compromised by the practice of mediation, which revolves around adults and parental decision-making, recent developments in England and Norway are compared in order to consider the impact of Norways recent incorporation of the UNCRC into its domestic law.

‘They need to … ’: Exploring practitioners’ attitudes in relation to newcomer migrant children’s needs in Norwegian day care:

Taking a critical stance on day care as a social site for democratic practice, this article focusses on practitioners’ attitudes regarding including newcomer migrant children in the assessment of their needs and decision-making processes in Norwegian day care. Considering the needs-discourse as a way of conveying both policy-makers’ and practitioners’ conclusions about the requirements of migrant children’s childhoods, we reveal how the individual agency of practitioners is captured by developmental culture-bound norms regarding what an ideal childhood should be.

Belonging and Identification: Challenges and Negotiations in Refugee Children’s Everyday Life in Norway

Settlement is a highly symbolic period of time for migrants who are granted the status of refugees and welcomed into their host society. Beyond what settlement represents for a state – its welfare system and its local communities that orchestrate the integration process for refugees – individuals are in the process of experiencing settlement. This chapter highlights the importance of identification in refugee children’s life experience of settlement and sense of belonging. It shows that children’s individual and collective identification, through their interactions with others, are key elements in achieving a positive experience of J. Archambault (*) Norwegian Centre for Child Research, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway e-mail: jo.archambault@gmail.com G.M.D. Haugen Diversity and Inclusion, NTNU Samfunnsforskning, Trondheim, Norway e-mail: gry.mette.haugen@samfunn.ntnu.no # Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2016 C. Nı́ Laoire et al. (eds.),Movement, Mobilities, and Journeys, Geographies of Children and Young People 6, DOI 10.1007/978-981-4585-93-4_19-2 1 belonging. From a young age, children have insights into complex issues of both inclusion and exclusion as well as experiencing both similarities and differences. Children’s experiences of belonging during the process of settlement are negotiated at multiple levels in their everyday life. Drawing on qualitative research conducted with refugee children in Norway, the findings show that children are active in exploring strategies to belong. However, the feeling of belonging to Norwegian society requires time and a fair number of good opportunities. Providing refugee children with opportunities that give them new experiences and positive social interactions during the process of settlement can help them figure out how best to negotiate the challenges they could encounter on their journeys in their new country.