Date: TBD

Time: TBD

CFP 39 - Regular: Invisible Families
Room: TBD

Sponsors: Family, Aging, and Youth
Poverty, Class, and Inequality

Organizer, Presider &

Discussant: Tia M. Dickerson, Columbia University

Description: 

This session focuses on diversity within family life, highlighting forms of family beyond the white, middle-class, heteronormative households that receive the bulk of attention in family research. We welcome submissions that address topics such as racial and ethnic identity in family experiences, LGBTQ+ family life, diverse forms of parenting and parenthood, and the experiences of children and adults with disabilities within families. Work on other forms of family diversity is also encouraged.

Papers:

“Earning Money the Hard Way: Former Seasonal Farmworker Youth’s Entry into Labor as Precarity Management,” Natalia Candelaria Gonzalez, University of California, Irvine, Winner of the Family, Aging, and Youth Division’s Student Paper Competition

“Found Family: Queering Families to Survive and Thrive,” Sameera V. Akella, Stonehill College

“Gendered Sensemaking in Heterosexual Relationship Formation Narratives: A Computational Text Analysis of Online Dating and Relationship Intermediaries,” Cristina Zito, University of California, Davis

“Reframing Adolescent Children of Sex Workers as Care Receivers and Caregivers Using the Southern Feminist Lens of Deep Care,” Anuneeta Chatterjee, University of Calgary, Honorable Mention of the Family, Aging, and Youth Division’s Student Paper Competition

“Shifting Attitudes toward Transracial Adoption in Digital and Non-Digital Spaces,” Colleen C. Butler-Sweet, Sacred Heart University

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