Structurally Embedded Dependency and Compound Vulnerability: Military Wives' Experiences of Divorce post-LASPO

结构性依赖和复合脆弱性：军人妻子在 LASPO 后的离婚经历

• 批准号: 1927749
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF EXETER
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2017 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-1927749
• 关键词: Structurally; Embedded; Dependency; Compound; Vulnerability

This research will examine the experiences of women previously married to serving members of the Armed Forces, by exploring issues of vulnerability (Fineman, 2008), resilience (Riggs & Riggs, 2011), power (Pyke, 1994), and autonomy (Barlow, 2015; Fineman, 2008). Military families face a unique combination of challenges: lengthy deployments; frequent relocations; unpredictable schedules; long hours; as well as relatively low pay and benefits (Karney, Loughran, & Pollard, 2012; Martin, Rosen, & Sparacino, 2000). Anecdotally, it appears that military wives have limited opportunities to either possess or command resources, and thus, as Fineman (2008) argues, may be particularly vulnerable postdivorce. As an example, whilst the serving members continue to have access to support services from the military (welfare services, housing, etc.), regardless of their official status on the Joint Personnel Administration (JPA), wives and children are given an eviction notice, and given 93 days to vacate from Service Families Accommodation (SFA) as soon as their spouses change their status to 'separated'. Further, upon vacating SFA, military families no longer have access to the social support networks (e.g from other military wives), nor are they able to access militarywelfare services. Thus, the institution itself may serve to further exacerbate vulnerability in the case of military wives. With current family law adopting a liberal ideology, which favours autonomy, self-sufficiency and personal responsibility (Fineman, 2008), such an approach appears to be problematic when applied to military families. A mixed methods approach will be used by conducting i) 3 focus groups with family lawyers, and ii) 30 interviews with military wives post-separation. This exploratory qualitative study will allow a nuanced understanding of the needs of separated military families, as well as a case study of the key theoretical concepts within family law of autonomy and resilience and how they operate in this specific context.

这项研究将通过探索脆弱性(Fineman，2008)、韧性(Riggs&Riggs，2011)、权力(Pyke，1994)和自主权(Barlow，2015；Fineman，2008)等问题，考察曾与武装部队现役成员结婚的女性的经历。军人家庭面临着一系列独特的挑战：漫长的部署；频繁的搬迁；不可预测的时间表；长时间；以及相对较低的工资和福利(Karney，Loughran，&Pollard，2012；Martin，Rosen，&Sparacino，2000)。坊间传闻，军人妻子拥有或支配资源的机会似乎有限，因此，正如芬曼(2008)所说，离婚后可能特别脆弱。例如，虽然现役成员继续可以获得军队的支助服务(福利服务、住房等)，但无论他们在联合人事管理局(JPA)的正式身份如何，都会向妻子和孩子发出驱逐通知，并在其配偶将其身份改为“分居”后立即给予93天时间从军人家属住所(SFA)撤离。此外，在撤离SFA后，军人家属不再能够获得社会支助网络(例如，从其他军人妻子那里)，也不能获得军人福利服务。因此，该机构本身可能会进一步加剧军人妻子的脆弱性。由于目前的家庭法采用了一种自由思想，即支持自治、自给自足和个人责任(Fineman，2008)，这种方法在适用于军人家庭时似乎是有问题的。将使用混合方法，包括：1)与家庭律师开展3个焦点小组；2)对分居后的军人妻子进行30次访谈。这项探索性的定性研究将使人们能够细致入微地了解离散军人家庭的需求，并对家庭法中有关自主和复原力的关键理论概念及其在这一特定背景下如何运作进行个案研究。