RT Journal Article
T1 Dual-career Spanish couples in Europe: work-family balance in childcare
A1 Escrivá Chordá, María Ángeles
A1 Bermúdez Figueroa, Eva
A1 Minguela, Maria Angeles
AB The article explores the childcare arrangements made by Spanish migrants in Belgium, Germany and the United Kingdom. The research is based on semi-structured interviews conducted after an exploratory survey. The respondents, mostly women with university degrees, had engaged inintra-European mobility between the economic recession of 2008 and the health crisis of 2020. In the narratives, women in dual-career couples with young children reflect on how approaching work-family balance depends on receiving social, institutional and family support. In addition, genderexpectations affect negotiations around the sharing of roles and responsibilities in different-sex couples. Interviewees underline that the gender divide persists or is even reinforced in relation to employment and technological change. Non-standard and -flexible jobs, little access to services orincompatible teleworking with children at home reveal the fragility of care and welfare regimes and, consequently, the limited ability of couples to find satisfaction in the search for a work–family balance.
PB Wiley
SN 1468-2435 (electrónico)
SN 0020-7985
YR 2022
FD 2022
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10272/21398
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10272/21398
LA eng
NO Escriva, A., Bermúdez Figueroa, E., & Minguela, M. Á. (2022). Dual‐career Spanish couples in Europe: Work‐family balance in childcare. In International Migration. Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1111/imig.13047
NO The article is derived from the research project “New intra-European mobilities: decisions about work, family and politics of ‘transmigrant’ Spaniards”, funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (CSO2017-84618-P). The Institute for Social and Sustainable Development of the University of Cadiz (INDESS) and the University of Huelva have supported the translation of this article. We are thankful to the editors and anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments.Funding for open access charge: Universidad de Huelva / CBUA
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Huelva
RD 31 may 2026