Naslov
Family, Unemployment, and Borders

Autori
Rubić, Tihana

Izvornik
COST EastBordNet

Vrsta, podvrsta
Ostale vrste radova, ostalo

Godina
2009

Ključne riječi
Unemployment; borders; identity; labour migration; literature review

Sažetak
From the 1990s, the significant socioeconomic and political changes have occurred in former socialist Croatia, which have affected the structure of formal labour market, causing the high level of (long-term) formal unemployment. By adopting the anthropological concept of surviving strategies (i.e. individuals taking actions in a limited range of economic and social possibilities in order to fulfill their elementarly needs, both material and emotional), the doctoral research concentrates on families and individuals, more precisely, on their access to informal labor market and to social and family assistance. Numerous statistical (quantitative) analyses of a problem of unemployment, notably from the fields of sociology and economics, bring along relevant knowledge of the totality of socioeconomic processes. However, they indicate to insufficiency of information on symbolic, empirical, and emotional level of everyday lives of families and individuals. Through the scope of taking decisions, creating strategies, rationalizing processes, and shaping the projection of the future in processes such as postindustrialisation (Bell 1973 ; Myles 1990) and deindustrialization (Dunn 2004), I aim to answer the question of how, due to diminished and restructured formal labour market, individuals and families have (re-)established the balance in their everyday lifes.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Etnologija i antropologija

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