Our guest blogger Lukasz Czarnecki looks at families and educational opportunities of in three countries, which represent two different types of the capitalism. Lukasz is trained in both sociology and law, he hold a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Strasbourg (France) and Mexico (UNAM), and Law from the Jagiellonian University Law and Administration School.
With its diverse mix of historical-comparative, qualitative, and quantitative methods, his research lies at the intersection of sociology and law from the Global South.

Our new entry is by Petteri Eerola on responsible fatherhood in Finland. Dr. Petteri Eerola, PhD (education), MA (sociology), is postdoctoral research fellow at Tampere University, Finland, and honorary research fellow at University College London. He gained his PhD at the University of Jyväskylä in 2015. His research focuses on fatherhood, parenting, families and family life. His recent publications include ‘How to unravel conceptualizations of “in/equality” in early childhood education and childcare system?’ (in Nordic Journal of Studies in Educational Policy, 2019, with M. Paananen, K. Repo and M. Alasuutari), ‘Rationalizing early childhood education and care in the local context: A case study of Finnish municipalities’ (in The Policies of Childcare and Early Childhood Education: Does Equal Access Matter?, in press, with M. Alasuutari, K. Karila, A. Kuukka and A. Siippainen), ‘Fathers’ narratives on support and agency: a case study of fathers in a Finnish child welfare NGO’ (in Nordic Social Work Research, 2017, with J. Mykkänen, H. Forsberg and L. Autonen-Vaaraniemi); ‘Finland’ (in Father Involvement in the Early Years. An International Comparison of Policy and Practice, 2016, with J. Huttunen) and ‘Paternal masculinities in early fatherhood: dominant and counter narratives by Finnish first-time fathers’ (in Journal of Family Issues, 2015, with J. Mykkänen).

Our guest blogger of July is Agnieszka Król from Jagiellonian University Medical College (Poland). In her post, she discusses reproductive justice and disability in Poland. She focuses on disability and motherhood, reproductive autonomy and experiences of motherhood of women with disabilities.
Agnieszka is sociologist currently working at Jagiellonian University and engaged within the Academic Network of European Disability experts (ANED). Her main scientific interests are located in the fields of disability, family and sexuality studies as well as social inequalities. Recently, she has co-author book on queer kinship “In different voices. Families of choice in Poland” (2017).

Our guest bloggers of March are Rosalina Pisco Costa and María Suárez Gómez from University of Evora, Portugal. They discuss how families shape food practices of Portuguese millennials.
Rosalina Pisco Costa is Assistant Professor of Sociology and María Suárez Gómez is a Post-doctoral Researcher at the Interdisciplinary Centre of Social Sciences, University of Évora, Portugal.

You can find them here and here

Our guest blogger of February is Sohoon Yi from Rice University. In her post, she discusses criminalization of marriage migrants in South Korea, their vulnerability in the context of increasing immigration surveillance. Sohoon uncovers how discourses on gender and nationalism are used in criminalization of marriage migrants.

Sohoon Yi is Postdoctoral Fellow in Transnational Asian Studies at Rice University, USA. She is a sociologist and an ethnographer whose research interest is migrant subjectivity at the intersection of gender, immigration laws, precarious labor, and informal market. Her research broadly examines the construction of the informal sphere by the exclusionary laws and policies as well as the migrants’ relationship with the border in temporary migration programs. You can find more about Sohoon here

Pei-Chun Ko is our guest blogger of January 2019. We are delighted that she accepted our invitation and became the first blogger of the renewed Guest Blogger Section. In her post, she traces her academic path in the research on ageing and family and summarizes the...

Beginning of 2019 marks the restart of a brilliant feature of the RC06 website, the Guest Bloggers Section. What is the motivation behind this? First, to boost the visibility of the RC06 and to spread out the research results, experiences and insights within and...