Intergenerational relationships and inner family resource flows in West Africa: A Comparison between Benin and Togo

该项目在西非的三个农村地区开展了以亲属为基础的代际关系，特别是老年人的物质照顾方面的研究。对非洲代际关系的研究伴随着对老年人权力、地位和威望的各种论述。更矛盾的是关于老年人供应的说法。据说，即使在缺乏正式的老年人社会保障制度的情况下，老年人对成年子女的供养也是必须的。为了批判性地分析这些陈词滥调，研究项目在一年的时间里在三个村庄进行了量化和定性调查，以调查代际家庭资源的流动。延长期的重点是对所有标准化调查的分析和出版，以及对个人网络的分析，主要是对SEIR调查数据的分析。这一分析将回答主要问题，是否照顾老人和代际关系在农村环境中存在差异，国家或地区的具体影响发挥了哪些作用。三个案例研究的比较提供了不同族裔群体（多哥的卡比耶族和贝宁的洛巴族与贝宁的巴托姆布族）在家庭代际供应方面的国家和区域差异的结论。在不同层面上，该项目比较了多哥和贝宁两国不同的民族影响。该研究项目的主要发现将在一本书和文章中提出。因此，我们提到了我们的出版物，在这些出版物中，我们已经在理论层面和对我们的定性数据的部分分析中对代际关系的科学讨论作出了贡献。总之，我们希望对亲属关系的研究，对农村老年人供给的结构性和实践性讨论，以及亲属相关护理的历史语境化做出实质性的贡献。

The project conducts research in three rural regions of West Africa the kin based intergenerational relationships and particularly the material care of elderly people. The research on intergenerational relationships for Africa is accompanied by various discourses on power, status and prestige of old people. Further ambivalent are statements about supply for elderly persons. It is said that elderly supply is obligatory for their adult children, even under the circumstances of missing formal social security systems for elderly people. To analyze critically these clichés, the research project runs quantifying and qualitative surveys in three villages during one year to investigate intergenerational familial resource flows.The focus of the prolongation period foresees the analysis and publication of all standardized surveys, as well as the analysis of personal networks, and mainly the analysis of the SEIR survey data. This analysis will answer the main questions, whether care for the elderly and intergenerational relations differentiate in rural settings, which roles influences of the state or regional specifics play. The comparison of the three case studies offers conclusions from national and regional distinctions of different ethnic groups (Kabiye in Togo and Lokpa in Benin versus Baatombu in Benin) on familial intergenerational supply. On a different level the project compares different national influences of the two states Togo and Benin.The central findings of the research project will be presented in a book and articles. Therefore we refer to our publications, in which we already contributed to a theoretical level and in a partial analysis of our qualitative data to scientific discussions on intergenerational relations. In sum we want to conduct a substantial contribution to studies of kinship, to structural and practical discussions on elderly supply in rural areas, and to the historical contextualization of kin related care.