Publicatie: Sibling caringscapes: Time-space practices of caring within youth-headed households

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Sibling caringscapes: Time-space practices of caring within youth-headed households in Tanzania and Uganda

This paper investigates the time-space practices of young people caring for their siblings in youthheaded households affected by AIDS in Tanzania and Uganda and finds that young people’s lifecourse transitions are shaped to a large extent by their caring responsibilities, resulting in some young people remaining in a liminal position for considerable periods, unable to make ’successful’ transitions to adulthood or experiencing detrimental effects on young people’s health, education, future employment prospects and mobility. Despite structural constraints, however, young people are able to exercise some autonomy over their caring pathways and lifecourse transitions. The research sheds light on the ways that individuals embody the practices, routines and rhythms of everyday life and exercise agency within highly restricted broader landscapes of care.

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