Posts by Laura Merla
Italian legal frame for separation, divorce, and child custody
This report examines the legal framework with regards to couple separation, divorce and child custody in Italy, and offers a useful guide for international audiences and social sciences researchers interested in those issues. The first section presents, in a chronological perspective, the various legislations that concern family matters and especially the questions regarding couple unions,…
Read More‘Doing’ and ‘Displaying’ Family in Polymediatic Environments: Conceptual Tools for the Analysis of Teenagers’
This chapter identifies interesting tools for the study of children’s creative digital practices in the family sphere, by articulating two aspects of children’s lives where ICTs play an important role: the everyday management of presence and absence in family life, and the practices that support how family continues to be ‘done’ in this context; and…
Read More« Families facing the Italian lockdown: Temporal adjustments and new caring practices in shared physical custody arrangements »
Objective: This paper investigates the impact of the 2020 Covid-19 related Spring Lockdown in Italy on families practicing shared physical custody (SPC) arrangements for their children. Background: Those family configurations partly challenge the dominant ‘mother as main carer model’ that characterizes Italian society. Here, we consider the lockdown as a « challenge-trial » to analyze the strategies that these…
Read MoreMobileKids at the 15th European Sociological Association Conference (ESA)
The MobileKids Team was thrilled to participate in the 15th ESA conference. Originally planned to be held in Barcelona, it was moved to a virtual format due to the sanitary crisis. Our team members presented the following papers: Title : Material practices of Children in shared custody arrangements: dealing with, and making sense of, a world in…
Read MoreThe SOHI: Operationalizing a New Model for Studying Teenagers’ Sense of Home in Post-divorce Families
This chapter explores the important question of whether, and under which condi-tions, children alternating between two distinct family dwellings can develop a sense of home that might nourish a sense of belonging to their sometimes, complex family configurations. We first present a theoretical framework to understand the various dimensions that influence children’s sense of home…
Read MoreComplexité familiale et politiques sociales
En juillet 2021, l’équipe MobileKids a participé à un panel passionnant sur la complexité familiale et les politiques sociales lors de la 5e Conférence internationale sur les Politiques Publiques. Laura Merla et Lorena Izaguirre ont présenté une analyse politique innovante, comparant et discutant le niveau de soutien que les politiques familiales belges, françaises et italiennes…
Read MoreLes politiques familiales soutiennent-elles les familles pratiquant l’hébergement alterné ?
Le 12 novembre 2020, l’équipe MobileKids a participé à la 4e réunion (virtuelle) du European Network for Multi-locality Studies, organisée par l’Université de Milan-Bicocca, sur le thème suivant : « Services et politiques encadrant les modes de vie multi-locaux ». Laura Merla, Lorena Izaguirre et Sarah Murru ont fait une présentation qui analyse dans quelle mesure les politiques…
Read MorePrésentation de résultats de recherche à la rencontre annuelle du Réseau européen des études Sociologiques et Démographiques sur le divorce
Du 14 au 16 octobre 2020 s’est tenue, sous un format virtuel, la 18e rencontre annuelle du Réseau européen des études Sociologiques et Démographiques sur le divorce à l’Université de Cologne, auquel l’équipe MobileKids a participé. Laura Merla, Sarah Murru, Bérengère Nobels, et Coralie Theys ont présenté un papier intitulé Analysing the experience of shared custody arrangements…
Read MoreFamilles séparées et gardes alternées : qu’en pensent les jeunes ?
Familles séparées et gardes alternées : qu’en pensent les jeunes ? Le 12 décembre 2019, Laura Merla était l’invitée de l’émission « Tendances Première » sur la première station de radio publique de la RTBF. Objectif : présenter et discuter le rapport MobileKids sur le regard que les adolescents portent sur leur configuration familiale post-divorce/séparation. Grâce à…
Read MorePresenting the MobileKids Research at the Conference: Changing Families, Changing Institutions?
On the 24th and 25th of October 2019, the InFaCt research project organized its closing conference at the University of Turin. The scope of this conference was to discuss “new” family practices and institutional responses to these ongoing changes in family configurations, with a particular emphasis on gender, rights, and childhood. Thus, a perfect opportunity of us…
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