"Juntos pero no revueltos": Family residential dependence and care vulnerabilities along the life course

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dc.contributor.authorAraos, Consuelo
dc.contributor.authorSiles, Catalina
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-20T22:08:59Z
dc.date.available2025-01-20T22:08:59Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.description.abstractIn the study of family residential dependence, Latin American literature has focused on coresidence and explained its relationship with care vulnerability trajectories in terms of the survival strategies of the poor. This approach implies the hypothesis of a substitution mechanism between family and paid care. However, this represents an incomplete picture of residential dependence in this context. Based on the contributions of three theoretical approaches-residential proximity, family configurations, and life course-and data from an ethnographic study carried out in Santiago, Chile, between 2006 and 2015, we analyze the relationship between family residential dependence configurations and care among individuals belonging to professional middle- and upper-class kinship groups. First, we show that residential dependence may occur between non-coresident individuals, mainly through quasi-coresidence and recohabitation practices. This allows individuals to remain rooted in a multigenerational network of interdependence throughout the life course at all socioeconomic levels, what the interviewees in the study called the "together but not mixed" ideal. Second, although a significant part of the residential interdependence is articulated around daily intergenerational care practices, we propose an alternative explanatory model based on the redundancy hypothesis, where the family solution to care vulnerabilities is generally preferred even when non-family care alternatives are available. The relationship between family members' care needs and residential dependence mechanisms cannot be reduced to economic deficits or strategic responses. Such needs participate in a structure of care preferences linked to culturally defined kinship styles, where frequent co-presence solidarity predominates.
dc.description.funderProyecto Anillos ANID
dc.fuente.origenWOS
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.alcr.2021.100404
dc.identifier.issn1040-2608
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.alcr.2021.100404
dc.identifier.urihttps://repositorio.uc.cl/handle/11534/94317
dc.identifier.wosidWOS:000692534700002
dc.language.isoen
dc.revistaAdvances in life course research
dc.rightsacceso restringido
dc.subjectResidential dependence
dc.subjectCare vulnerabilities
dc.subjectQuasi-coresidence
dc.subjectRecohabitation
dc.subjectLife course
dc.subjectEthnography
dc.subjectLatin America
dc.subjectUrban families
dc.subject.ods03 Good Health and Well-being
dc.subject.ods05 Gender Equality
dc.subject.odspa03 Salud y bienestar
dc.subject.odspa05 Igualdad de género
dc.title"Juntos pero no revueltos": Family residential dependence and care vulnerabilities along the life course
dc.typeartículo
dc.volumen49
sipa.indexWOS
sipa.trazabilidadWOS;2025-01-12
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