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'Quality Time' in Nanny Families: Local Care Loops and New Inequalities in Sweden
Lund University, Sweden.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-4177-892X
Lund University, Sweden.
2022 (English)In: Care Loops and Mobilities in Nordic, Central, and Eastern European Welfare States / [ed] Lena Näre, Lise Widding Isaksen, Palgrave Macmillan , 2022, p. 85-107Chapter in book (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

Political initiatives such as tax deductions for domestic services including nannies have, together with a growing au pair market, paved the way for new possibilities of organizing child care and parenting in Sweden. This affects everyday ‘local care loops’ for the upper-middle-class families purchasing the services, as the logistics of solving the work-family dilemma change with the possibility of hiring cheap female—and often migrant—care workers (Näre & Isaksen 2019). In this chapter, we analyse how this affects the doing of family in ‘nanny families’. Taking our point of departure in a qualitative study with nannies and au pairs (n = 26), parents (n = 29), and children receiving care (n = 19) (Eldén and Anving 2019), we show how everyday care is experienced and understood from the perspective of different actors involved in the practice, with a special focus on ideas of ‘quality time’. We argue that the new possibilities of organizing care and time in families reproduce inequalities: the new local care loops enable the possibility for some—well-off—parents to realize ideals of ‘good and stress-free parenting’, with quality time with their children, while at the same time not giving up on the idea of gender equality.

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Palgrave Macmillan , 2022. p. 85-107
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Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life, ISSN 2731-6440, E-ISSN 2731-6459
Keywords [en]
Children’s perspective, Inequalities, Local care loops, Paid domestic child care, Parenting, Quality time, Sweden
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Sociology
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URN: urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-80951DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-92889-6_5Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85126538923ISBN: 978-3-030-92888-9 (print)ISBN: 978-3-030-92891-9 (print)ISBN: 978-3-030-92889-6 (electronic)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:mau-80951DiVA, id: diva2:2017796
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Riksbankens JubileumsfondAvailable from: 2025-12-01 Created: 2025-12-01 Last updated: 2025-12-01Bibliographically approved

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