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进行研究，研究以亲属为基础的代际关系，特别是老年人的物质照顾。在对非洲代际关系的研究中，伴随着对老年人权力、地位和威望的各种论述。关于老年人的供应的说法也很矛盾。据说，即使在缺乏老年人正式社会保障制度的情况下，老年人的成年子女也有义务提供老年人用品。为了批判性地分析这些陈词滥调，该研究项目在一年内在三个村庄进行了定量和定性调查，调查代际家庭资源流动。延长期的重点是所有标准化调查的分析和发布，以及个人网络分析，主要是SEIR调查数据的分析。这项分析将回答的主要问题，是否照顾老年人和代际关系在农村环境中区分，国家或地区的具体发挥的作用的影响。通过对这三个案例研究的比较，得出了不同族裔群体（多哥的Kabiye和贝宁的Lokpa与贝宁的Baatombu）在家庭代际供应方面的国家和区域差异的结论。该项目在不同的层面上比较了多哥和贝宁两个国家的不同国家影响，研究项目的主要结果将以书籍和文章的形式介绍。因此，我们参考我们的出版物，其中我们已经在理论层面上做出了贡献，并在对我们的定性数据的部分分析中对代际关系进行了科学讨论。总之，我们希望进行重大贡献的亲属关系的研究，在农村地区的老年人供应的结构和实际的讨论，并与亲属相关的护理的历史背景。

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.