TY - JOUR

T1 - Buffered mobility

T2 - parenting strategies of religious Jewish global middle class families

AU - Mizrachi, Maayan

AU - Maxwell, Claire

AU - Yemini, Miri

PY - 2022

Y1 - 2022

N2 - This study adds to the emerging body of literature on parental practices and trajectories of globally mobile middle-class families, by focusing on families belonging to diverse religious Jewish communities. Through an interview-based, in-depth analysis of three internationally mobile families representing various Jewish religious factions, we illustrate the complex matrix of inter-relations between mobility, religion, and parenting. Our analysis shows that a mobile lifestyle offers these Jewish religious families a liberating encounter, but that parents work to maintain their religious links while simultaneously securing the necessary advantages middle-class families generally aspire to. We found that religion plays an important role in social reproduction of these particular mobile families, acting as a buffer to reduce the uncertainty and shock integral to regular mobility. Furthermore, we illuminate how various forms of religiosity are reproduced through different strategies across the participating families.

AB - This study adds to the emerging body of literature on parental practices and trajectories of globally mobile middle-class families, by focusing on families belonging to diverse religious Jewish communities. Through an interview-based, in-depth analysis of three internationally mobile families representing various Jewish religious factions, we illustrate the complex matrix of inter-relations between mobility, religion, and parenting. Our analysis shows that a mobile lifestyle offers these Jewish religious families a liberating encounter, but that parents work to maintain their religious links while simultaneously securing the necessary advantages middle-class families generally aspire to. We found that religion plays an important role in social reproduction of these particular mobile families, acting as a buffer to reduce the uncertainty and shock integral to regular mobility. Furthermore, we illuminate how various forms of religiosity are reproduced through different strategies across the participating families.

KW - families

KW - global middle class

KW - mobility

KW - Religion

U2 - 10.1080/20004508.2020.1857976

DO - 10.1080/20004508.2020.1857976

M3 - Journal article

AN - SCOPUS:85097438958

VL - 13

SP - 205

EP - 225

JO - Education Inquiry

JF - Education Inquiry

SN - 2000-4508

IS - 2

ER -