Quando os (des)afetos “fazem famílias”. Não-ditos, mentiras e fracassos nas trajetórias de migração em Cabo Verde

This study analyzes the changes which occurred in the life situation of the rural older adult population of Santana da Boa Vista – Rio Grande do Sul, with the social welfare benefits. The study is part of an Interdisciplinary Research Program that aims at integrating a multidisciplinary focus on the analysis of the rural development in areas of the state of Rio Grande do Sul, more precisely in the region known as Metade Sul. The objective is to describing and analyzing, the changes occurred in the situation of life after if they benefit with the social welfare help. Therefore, it is an exploratory and descriptive study with collection and qualitative data analysis via interviews, with 30 beneficiary older adult of Social welfare, residents in the rural environment of the town studied. It was observed that the social welfare benefits allow them to diminish their workload, for the regularity of the monthly contribution, it allowed them to continue living in the rural environment, a place which they do not consider leaving, mainly, larger power in the autonomy sense and independence in the family relationships, since they can help their children and grandchildren, with whom they plan the future and elaborate different strategies to remain in the rural environment.

Approximately 20% of current-era Veterans have sustained a traumatic brain injury (TBI), which can result in persistent postconcussive symptoms. These symptoms may disrupt family and social functioning. We explored psychiatric, postconcussive, and cognitive factors as correlates of objective functioning and subjective satisfaction in family and social relationships. At entry into a supported employment study, 50 unemployed Veterans with a history of mild to moderate TBI and current cognitive impairment were administered baseline assessments. Multivariate stepwise regressions determined that higher levels of depressive symptomatology were strongly associated with less frequent social contact, as well as lower subjective satisfaction with family and social relationships. Worse verbal fluency predicted less frequent social contact, whereas worse processing speed and switching predicted higher levels of subjective satisfaction with family relationships. The pattern of results remained similar when examining those Veterans with only mild TBI. Depressive symptoms and cognitive functioning may impact Veterans' social contact and satisfaction with family and social relationships. Evidence-based interventions addressing depression and cognition may therefore aid in improving community reintegration and satisfaction with social and family relationships.

This study investigates the role of family and social relationships in cases of attempted suicide in China. Studies, mostly analyzing data from developed countries, have indicated that interpersonal relationships are important predictors of suicidal behaviors. This study's data were derived from a case-control study in China. Family relationships included relationships with spouses, parents, and parents-in-law. Poor family and social relationships were significantly associated with increased risk of attempted suicide in women and men. Depression and social support significantly mediated the association between interpersonal relationship and attempted suicide. Poor relationship with spouse was significantly associated with an elevated risk of attempted suicide. Relationship with parents-in-law was also significantly associated with attempted suicide in women, whereas family relationships played a more important role than social relationships in suicidal behaviors, especially in men. The findings imply that suicide prevention in China could be conducted from the perspective of improving family relationships, especially husband/wife and parents/daughters-in-law relationships.

Based on ethnographic research on Chinese migrants in Nigeria, Botswana, and Namibia from 2011 to 2015, this article has three lines of argumentation and contribution. First, it proposes a framing of migrant geographies from a humanistic comparative perspective in order to complement the political economy approaches in geographies of migration. Second, lying in the intersection of urban studies and migration studies, it illustrates the different positionalities of cities in three aspects of migrant geographies – migrant space, network, and belonging – echoing the multiscalar analysis of city-making in migration processes. Third, specifically in the context of Chinese migrant geographies, three African cities, Lagos, Gaborone, and Windhoek, are placed in three migrants’ geographic worlds, not always according to their positions in multiscalar power structures, but partly through migrant experiences in which top-down power horizontally works.

The aim of this study was to analyze the prevalence and to georeference the malocclusion traits in adolescents in the city of Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil. Data from a previous cross-sectional study with 538 adolescents aged 10 to 14 years were used. In addition, the following variables were used: gender, Health District (HD) of residence, and presence and malocclusion traits. Fisher’s Exact Test, georeferencing, and kernel mapping were used for data evaluation. Malocclusion was observed in 52.4% of individuals, and the most prevalent occlusal trait was deep bite (22.7%), followed by excessive overjet (19.9%), anterior crowding (8.0%), posterior crossbite (6.5%), anterior open bite (4.8%), and anterior crossbite (1.7%). Malocclusion was not associated with gender (p = 0.389) or HD (p = 0.079). However, when stratified by gender, the deep bite prevailed among male. The highest malocclusion trait’s prevalence was observed in the HDs of Cajuru, Pinheirinho, Boa Vista, and Cidade Industrial de Curitiba. Despite the absence of significant differences in relation to gender and HD, the prevalence of malocclusion traits in the sample studied was high, especially for deep bite. Additionally, georeferencing proved to be useful for identifying the distribution of malocclusion in Curitiba.

O município da Barra do Choça, distante 27 km de Vitória da Conquista, é destaque na produção de café na Região do Planalto da Conquista desde a implantação da cultura. Este trabalho teve como objetivo estudar o papel da mulher inserida em diversos setores da cadeia produtiva do café no município da Barra do Choça na Bahia, visando à satisfação com a atividade que exerce a relação trabalho/família e sua autoestima. Este estudo foi realizado através da aplicação de questionário, abrangendo dados pessoais, atuação na cadeia produtiva do café, relação trabalho/família, trajetória do trabalho fora de casa, realização profissional, lazer nos finais de semana, mulher na cafeicultura, e quem é o nome da entrevistada. Foram entrevistadas 25 mulheres, entre elas 24 na zona rural, sendo Assentamento Mocambo, Ingazeira e Santo Antônio II (três), Pau Brasil e Santo Antônio I (duas), Boa Vista e Coqueiro (uma), Sossego (nove) e no próprio município da Barra do Choça (uma). Conclui-se que a participação da mulher dentro do setor cafeeiro no município da Barra do Choça, está em crescimento e que estas mulheres estão satisfeitas com a atividade que exercem, pois conseguem conciliar trabalho e família, e possuem elevada autoestima.

Impact of Cancer on Family Relationships

The purpose of this study was to investigate gender differences in the associations of life satisfaction with family and social relations among the Japanese elderly. Ordered logit models were estimated to explain life satisfaction with a rich set of explanatory variables, using micro data of 3,277 elderly Japanese adults (1,679 men and 1,598 women) collected from the first-wave sample from the Japanese Study of Aging and Retirement (JSTAR). This study found that men are less satisfied with life when living without their spouse; women are less satisfied with life when they live and/or have close relations with their parents-in-law; coresidence with an unmarried son is negatively associated with life satisfaction for both men and women; and, a larger number of friends and social activities enhance life satisfaction for women but not for men. Men are more sensitive than women to overall family relations, while the relative importance of social relations is higher for women. These results confirmed gender differences in the associations of life satisfaction with family and social relations in Japan-a nation characterized by a gender-asymmetric society and multi-generational family settings.

This article draws from a broader research project Transnational childhoods, illuminating the agency and experiences of children and young people migrating from Poland and Romania to Sweden under the age of 18. Focusing on young people born in Poland and having social relationships post-migration as central theoretical component, the article explores the role that the Polish Catholic community in Sweden plays in the lives of young Polish migrants. It does so by grounding the analysis on 23 qualitative interviews, combined with network maps and life-lines, produced by the young Polish participants. The study identifies three important dimensions in the role of the Polish Catholic community. These are comprised of the community's role for young Poles' spiritual development and religious identity, for building new friendships and making sense of common migration and religious experiences, and guidance by specifically Polish Catholic priests in the young migrants' family relationships and in future life projects. The article concludes that while practicing religion and building significant social relationships within the Polish congregations the young migrants shape feelings of belonging and inclusion, however primarily within the limits of their own ethnic community. Further research is needed on the wider implications of primarily mono-ethnic relational practices for the young Poles' lives within the increasingly ethnically heterogeneous Swedish society.

While existing research has explored the impact of religious and spiritual beliefs on the mental health of transgender individuals, little is known about how these factors interact with other determinants, such as socioeconomic status, healthcare access, and migratory experiences, to shape their overall wellbeing. This paper aims to address this gap by exploring how transgender migrants in Spain navigate their health and wellbeing through the lens of their religious and spiritual beliefs. It examines how these individuals draw on their childhood experiences and family relationships – shaped by past oppressive religious contexts – to reshape their present selves, integrating the ongoing transformation of both their gender identity and spiritual beliefs. Rather than completely rejecting their past, they selectively adapt their religious beliefs into individualised spiritual practices that emphasise queer agency and bodily autonomy. Drawing on five life stories, I explore how they reconcile religious or alternative spiritual practices to safeguard their agency and wellbeing. These narratives shed new light on the various intersectional factors influencing health-related decisions. Within this context, religion can either pose challenges and distress or offer comfort and new perspectives for the emergence of queer forms of spirituality.

This paper examines the relationship between family experiences of migration and adolescents' preferences about who should make the decision about who to marry in two migrant-sending regions. Shifts in parental involvement in spouse choice, like other changes in marriage and family systems, are connected to broader social and economic changes that reduce the centrality of family relationships. Migrant household members may contribute to these changes by reorienting family relationships and interdependencies or by exposing adolescents to new ideas and values. This study uses data collected in Gaza Province, Mozambique and Chitwan Valley, Nepal as part of the Family Migration and Early Life Outcomes (FAMELO) project. Using logistic regression, the authors analyze variation in adolescents' preferences for parental spouse choice by multiple aspects of migration (e.g., timing, reason), controlling for adolescent characteristics and other theoretically relevant predictors. Mozambican adolescents in migrant-sending households were more likely to prefer families choose their spouse than those in households without migration experience. In Nepal, household migration experience was not associated with adolescent spouse-selection preferences. The findings point to how a complex association between migration systems and local family structures may shape adolescents' ideas about family relationships and their family-formation preferences.

Reliance upon unpaid and committed family labour is said to make many ethnic businesses competitive. However, most analysts' references to this labour have not taken into account the nature of family members' and, in particular, children's work roles or the ways in which their labour is elicited and maintained. Here, the nature of children's labour participation in ethnic businesses is investigated in the case of families running Chinese take‐away businesses in Britain. This article focuses on how children in these families understand their often double‐edged experiences of ‘helping out’, as part of a ‘family work contract’, and on the ways in which families negotiate children's labour over time. Given these families' experiences of migration and ethnic minority status, I argue that Chinese children's work in take‐away businesses must be examined in relation to the intersections of family obligations and relationships, livelihood strategies and pressures, and issues of cultural identity.

In the scientific article, the author justifies that a person is an active participant in civil and family relations every day. The sphere of family life is an integral part of our existence. Civil legal relations expand the opportunities of their participants by satisfying personal non-property and property needs and interests. Along with other regulators of social relations, the role of the contract in influencing the studied legal relations is decisive.
 The formation of the contract as an independent source of law has a long history. Its role, along with such widespread sources of law as normative legal act, custom and others, is important. In general, scientific works in the field of civil and family law are enough to study the contract as a source of law, but not enough attention is paid to the issue of the contract as a source of legal regulation of family and civil relations.
 The contract is the main regulator of civil legal relations, we also note its important influence on the regulation of family relations.
 The author investigated the approaches of scientists in the theory of the state and law to the definition of the concept of "source of law", "form of law", "legal regulation". It has been established that the contract is both a source of law and a source of legal regulation. These concepts are not identical.
 The types of legal regulation are disclosed and it is determined that the contract is the source of individual regulation of civil and family relations.
 In the conclusions, the author defines the concept of a contract as a source of legal regulation of civil and family relations as an external form of expression of the rules of conduct established by the participants of relations to regulate civil and family relations that arise, change and terminate in connection with the conclusion of such a contract. The main features are also defined.

In this paper, we explore the meanings constructed of involuntary migration processes and influences on family relationships and interactions. We draw from qualitative interview data with 30 Syrian and Iraqi refugee parents (13 females and 17 males) currently living in Canada, as well as survey data from professionals working with newly arrived refugee families in a Canadian context. Refugee parents reflect on the impact of pre-migration, in transit, and post-migration circumstances and experiences on their family relationships. These men and women tell stories of their responses to and the effects of difficult experiences initiating and accompanying their involuntary migration from war zones, and post-migration settlement. To complement this interview data, we also surveyed group facilitators working in the same local community with refugee families (including parents, teens, and younger children) in Journey Home, a cultural adaptation of the Strengthening Families Program (SFP 8–11, 12–16), identifying and addressing early risk factors leading to potential involvement of criminal justice and child protection services. These professionals reflect on what they have heard and observed, in these groups, about parents, teens, and children’s experiences of involuntary migration and resettlement and effects on family interactions. They also reflect on what aspects of their own prior experience and professional/academic training aid them in their work. These reflections by both refugee family members and service providers are both similar and different. They highlight the challenges and resiliencies of family life in the face of involuntary migration, the conditions that enhance family well-being and effective professional supports.

Migration is a gendered phenomenon, embedded within patriarchal structures and social relations that extend beyond State borders. We draw on a transnational feminist framework to explore the gendered dimensions of young refugee and immigrant women’s migration and learning experiences. Ten women were involved in a participatory photography research project over a period of two years in which they took and shared photographs, and engaged in storytelling and self-reflection through writing and dialogue. Through the photo-stories, the women demonstrate the plurality of refugees’ and immigrants’ stories and how these contribute to the larger social analysis of what it is to be an immigrant or refugee woman in Atlantic Canada. We focus this paper on three key themes: (1) formal and informal learning experiences; (2) the essential role relationships play in the women’s migration experiences; and (3) the importance of reflecting on and embracing life’s journeys.