Intergenerational Solidarity in a Life Course Perspective
This article takes the life course perspective to show how intergenerational solidarity can help to increase the socio-economic inequalities. Taking the case of Portuguese immigrants in Luxembourg, it shows that the burden of the past, multiple family exercised roles, the bilocation of solidarity and interdependence of individual lives generate specific practices of financial solidarity and contribute to increased inequality.This demonstration leads to a discussion about the relevance of the life course perspective in discussions about the reform of welfare states in the context of population aging and harmonisation systems of social security and family obligations in of the European Union.