על הקו ובין שני בתים: משפחות ישראליות בניסועין

Commuter families, where one spouse lives in a different country due to work obligations and the other spouse is the main caretaker, form a small but growing family pattern in Israel. It is difficult to estimate the number of households with such arrangements since they are not recognized by the Israeli authorities as an occupational or bureaucratic category. Consequently, this study offers one of the first attempts to examine how commuter families narrate their private experiences and navigate the Social Security | xitension between traditional family values and neoliberal identities in a globalized world. The study was carried out during 2018. It is based on 17 in-depth interviews with heterosexual married couples with joint children, who maintain two homes as part of commuter partnershipsand on a group interview with seven women in commuter marriages. The interviews examined the perception of family; the impact of the commute on spouses’ levels of satisfaction with their relationship, including intimacy and gender roles; and the strategies used as a means of coping with the challenges of commuter marriages.