The impact of the March 2020 Covid lockdown on parent-child relationships

The Covid pandemic had a profound impact on both family and school life, including the closure of educational settings and the transfer of children's education to a home setting ('home schooling'). This presentation formed part of a symposium at the BERA conference 2022 and shared the findings from a survey (n=3657) and interviews (n=11) of English participants conducted in summer 2020. The survey found a slim majority of parents felt that home schooling affected their parent-child relationship with reports of both increased tension and increased closeness. The interviews were analysed using Foucauldian Discourse Analysis to present three profiles: 'the interested parent'; 'the exasperated home worker'; and 'dealing with dualities'. Implications for parent-child relations were then considered

Agency, resistance and (forced) mobilities.The case of Syrian refugees in transit through Italy.

Abstract During the biennium 2013–2014 Syrian refugees started to reach Italy through Mediterranean seaborne migration routes, from Libya and Egypt. Their presence contributed to partially modifying the configuration of the incoming migration flows to Italy, both in terms of socio-demographic composition and access to the European asylum system. Data shows that most of the Syrian refugees who landed in Italy between 2013 and 2014 decided to pursue their journeys to Northern Europe, by overcoming the restrictions imposed by the Dublin Regulation. The article focuses on the phenomenon of transit, as an interesting standpoint from which to observe certain acts of agency and resistance, put in place by refugees in order to “choose the country where to live” (Denaro, 2016): the refusal to provide fingerprints during identification, the organization of hunger strikes, the secondary mobility per se. Moreover, the article attempts to shed light on the relational and socio-political context in which these practices have taken shape, by focusing on the construction of relationships with activists and volunteers, and the (explicit and tacit) processes of negotiation which refugees conducted with police authorities and other stakeholders.</div