Latinx immigrants raising children in the land of the free: Parenting in the context of persecution and fear

2021 ◽  
pp. 147332502110145
Author(s):  
Fernanda Lima Cross ◽  
Deborah Rivas-Drake ◽  
Jasmin Aramburu
Keyword(s):  
Parenting Practices ◽  
Additional Stress ◽  
Immigrant Parents ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Double Burden ◽  
Family Structures ◽  
Raising Children ◽  
Immigrant Destinations ◽  
Mixed Status ◽  
New Immigrant

Anti-immigrant rhetoric generated by the sociopolitical climate under the current U.S. presidential administration has exacerbated the fear of deportation and family separation within the unauthorized Latinx community. Consequently, millions of families, including U.S. citizen children living in mixed-status households, are experiencing stressful environments as they adapt and respond to their social context. This study explored how harsh immigration discourse impacts mixed-status families living in a new-immigrant destination. Twenty-two unauthorized mothers participated in semi-structured interviews regarding their experiences as immigrants raising children in the U.S. Two main themes arose from this analysis: (1) ever-present fear and stress and (2) obeying the law and avoiding others. Parents explained how they had been living in fear since the elections took place, and the different scenarios they had to prepare for in case of deportation. Moreover, some parents choose to minimize conversations around incidents happening in their community to avoid additional stress for children, whereas others addressed children’s concerns to reassure them and placate their apprehension. Participants also reported avoiding unnecessary trips outside of the home to prevent interactions with others, especially law enforcement. These results provide important insights regarding the experiences of unauthorized Latinx immigrant parents in the context of sociopolitical adversity. Due to the limited resources often available in new immigrant destinations, social workers must leverage their networks to support families undergoing difficult transitions with special attention to altered family structures and parenting practices. As unauthorized parents attempt to withstand the double burden of basic survival and effective parenting, it is imperative that practitioners provide tools for parents to effectively engage with their children to sustain healthy environments.

Listening to Bedouin fathers of children with autism spectrum disorder

2018 ◽  
Vol 56 (2) ◽  
pp. 345-358 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iris Manor-Binyamini
Keyword(s):  
Autism Spectrum Disorder ◽  
Support Services ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Children With Autism ◽  
Autism Spectrum ◽  
Spectrum Disorder ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Raising Children ◽  
Cultural Perspectives ◽  
Children With Asd

Although children across the world experience autism spectrum disorder (ASD), most research on ASD has been conducted using Western cultural perspectives and has focused primarily on mothers, leaving significant gaps in the literature. This study aimed to address these gaps by exploring the experiences of fathers raising children with ASD in a Bedouin community. To this end, a sample of 19 fathers of children (aged 6–15 years) with ASD living in recognized and unrecognized Bedouin settlements in the Negev participated in ethnographic, semi-structured interviews designed to investigate their experiences with raising a child with ASD in their community. Two major themes emerged: the challenges that Bedouin fathers of children with ASD face, and the influence of socio-demographic and cultural characteristics on their experience. Findings reflect the complex experiences of fathers raising children with ASD in the Bedouin community, stemming from their socio-cultural context and the limited knowledge and support services that are available in the community for these children. This article concludes with recommendations on how to enhance professional sensitivity and provide more culturally tailored services for parents of children with ASD.

scholarly journals Interpersonal Partner Relationships, Bonds to Children, and Informal Social Control among Persistent Male Offenders

2018 ◽  
Vol 66 (3) ◽  
pp. 468-483 ◽  
Author(s):  
Avelardo Valdez ◽  
Kathryn M Nowotny ◽  
Qian-Wei Zhao ◽  
Alice Cepeda
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Behavior ◽  
Mexican American ◽  
San Antonio ◽  
Complex Nature ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Family Structures ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Adult Men ◽  
Partner Relationships ◽  
Life Course Framework

AbstractThis qualitative study applied a life course framework to characterize the nature of interpersonal partner relationships of Mexican American young adult men affiliated with street gangs during their adolescence. Data come from a 15-year longitudinal mixed-method cohort study conducted in San Antonio, Texas. We analyzed semi-structured interviews conducted with a subsample (n = 40) during the course of three face-to-face sessions to explore the men’s motivations, aspirations, and goals to lead conventional lives, despite their criminal justice involvement. Specifically, we focus on the complex nature of maintaining ties to children, the navigation of complicated family structures, the processes of seeking partners with economic resources, and on partnerships with criminal and delinquent partners. We document the complex interpersonal nature of these relationships as men contend with serial incarceration and their desires and motivations to desist from criminal behavior.

scholarly journals Ever more parents in polyamorous families: A new materialist typology of parenting practices and division of work

Sexualities ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 136346072110374
Author(s):  
Cornelia Schadler
Keyword(s):  
Gender Roles ◽  
Parenting Practices ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Gender Norms ◽  
Care Work ◽  
Family Structures ◽  
Traditional Family ◽  
Standard Family ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Family Models

An analysis of parents that are a part of polyamorous networks—networks of three, four, or even more residential or highly available parents—shows three types of parenting practices: poly-nuclear, hierarchical, and egalitarian parenting. Especially, the hierarchical and egalitarian parenting practices show novel divisions of care work and a transgression of gender norms. However, in-depth new materialist analysis of qualitative interviews also shows how parents are, in specific situations, pushed toward standard family models and thus unintentionally maintain traditional family structures and gender roles.

scholarly journals Effects of mother's and father's education level and age at migration on children's bilingual vocabulary

2018 ◽  
Vol 39 (5) ◽  
pp. 811-833 ◽  
Author(s):  
INGELIN WESTEREN ◽  
ANNE-MARIE HALBERG ◽  
HELOISE MARIE LEDESMA ◽  
ASTRI HEEN WOLD ◽  
BRIT OPPEDAL
Keyword(s):  
Language Skills ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Education Level ◽  
Research Literature ◽  
Hierarchical Regression ◽  
Immigrant Parents ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Turkish Immigrant ◽  
Parental Background ◽  
Age At Migration

ABSTRACTThe present study addressed important gaps in the research literature on bilingual development by examining the effects of both mother's and father's education level and age at migration on children's bilingual vocabulary in two different age groups. The sample included 81 preschoolers and 92 preadolescents with two Turkish immigrant parents living in Norway. The children were born in Norway, or migrated to Norway before/at the age of 3. The children completed Norwegian and Turkish vocabulary tests during home visits while mothers provided information regarding both parents’ education and age at migration in structured interviews. Results from hierarchical regression analyses showed that father's education significantly predicted all children's majority (Norwegian) vocabulary scores while mother's education significantly predicted majority vocabulary scores in the preschoolers. Father's education significantly predicted minority (Turkish) vocabulary scores among the preadolescents. Mother's, but not father's, age at migration significantly predicted preschoolers' majority vocabulary scores and preadolescents' minority vocabulary. Hence, the parental background variables predicted minority vocabulary scores only among the preadolescents, not the preschoolers. We conclude that mothers and fathers influence the minority and majority language skills of their bilingual children differently and that their influence varies depending on the age of the child.

Rupturing the Silences: Intergenerational Construction of Salvadoran Immigrant War Necronarratives

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-92
Author(s):  
Ester N. Trujillo
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Second Generation ◽  
The State ◽  
Central American ◽  
Immigrant Parents ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
War Memories ◽  
Salvadoran Civil War ◽  
War Stories ◽  
The U.S

Abstract As the children of wartime immigrants from El Salvador become adults, they must grapple with the role violence played—and continues to play—in Salvadoran society. Second-generation Salvadorans interpret their relatives’ stories of war, death, and violence through a lens that prioritizes lessons gained over traumatization. Thus, immigrant parents’ casual discussions about their experiences during the Salvadoran Civil War (1979–1992) become what this article calls necronarratives: stories pieced together from memories based on foiling death and violence generated through state necropolitics. Youth interpret inherited memories through a lens of survival, resilience, and healing. Necropolitics refers to the ability of the state to legislate and draw policies that determine who lives and who dies. Although scholars have noted that high levels of war-related trauma among Salvadoran immigrants cause them to remain silent about those experiences, my research reveals that children of these immigrants collect and construct narratives using the memory fragments shared during casual conversations with their relatives. Drawing from 20 semi-structured interviews with U.S. Salvadorans, this paper shows that U.S. Salvadorans construct narratives out of their family’s war memories in order to locate affirming qualities of the Salvadoran experience such as surviving a war, achieving migration, and building a life in a new country. Contrary to past indications that Central American migrants live in silence about their national origins in order to avoid discrimination in the U.S. and to avoid traumatizing their children, this study on second-generation Salvadoran adults describes the ethnic roots information families do share through war stories. The Salvadoran case shows youth actively engage with necronarratives as they come of age to adulthood to yield lessons about how their national origins and ethnic heritages shape their senses of belonging and exclusion within U.S. society.

New Immigrant Destinations in Global Context

2014 ◽  
Vol 48 (1_suppl) ◽  
pp. 149-179 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jamie Winders
Keyword(s):  
Frame Of Reference ◽  
Foreign Born ◽  
Global Context ◽  
New Immigrant Destinations ◽  
Immigrant Settlement ◽  
The World ◽  
Immigrant Destinations ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
The U.S ◽  
New Immigrant

This article calls for the study of new immigrant destinations in a global context. Although the term “new immigrant destinations” has been primarily associated with the U.S., migration scholars of other regions and countries are examining new or emerging immigrant destinations and the implications of immigrant settlement in places that heretofore have had no notable foreign-born populations. This article argues that expanding the frame of reference for the study of new immigrant destinations provides greater insight into the ways that new geographies of immigrant settlement around the world are re-shaping dominant understandings of contemporary migration processes.

Teachers’ experiences with immigrant children in Czech elementary schools

Human Affairs ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alicja Leix ◽  
Klára Záleská
Keyword(s):  
Essential Role ◽  
Secondary Level ◽  
Immigrant Children ◽  
Immigrant Parents ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Family Culture ◽  
Current State ◽  
Teachers Experiences ◽  
Teachers Attitudes

AbstractThe paper deals with Czech teachers’ experiences of teaching immigrant children in Czech schools at the primary and lower secondary level. Upon introducing the theoretical context the paper presents the results of empirical research based on semi-structured interviews with teachers. The survey demonstrates teachers’ attitudes to the current state of integration of immigrant children and the extent to which they are prepared for teaching this group of children. Teachers have a wide variety of opinion on different measures for improving the education of immigrants. Their attitudes towards immigrant children are largely influenced by the amount of previous experience with teaching immigrant children. An individualized teacher approach to immigrants plays an essential role in the successful integration of immigrant children in schools, as do the quality of interaction with immigrant parents, the similarity of the immigrant family culture to Czech culture and the range of measures designed to improve integration.

Conceptualization of a good end-of-life experience with dementia in Japan: a qualitative study

2019 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 255-265
Author(s):  
Mayumi Nishimura ◽  
Ayako Kohno ◽  
Jenny T. van der Steen ◽  
Toru Naganuma ◽  
Takeo Nakayama
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
End Of Life ◽  
Family Caregivers ◽  
Life Experience ◽  
Central Position ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Cultural Backgrounds ◽  
Term Care ◽  
Family Structures ◽  
People With Dementia

ABSTRACTObjectives:To conceptualize a “good end of life” for people with dementia from the perspectives of bereaved family caregivers in Japan.Design and participants:A qualitative study using in-depth, semi-structured interviews focused on the family caregivers’ perceptions of their loved one’s experiences. Family caregivers who had lost their relatives with dementia more than six months previously were recruited using maximum variation sampling by cultural subpopulation. A thematic analysis was conducted.Results:From 30 interviews held, four main themes emerged. A good end of life for people with dementia means experiencing a “Peaceful Death” while “Maintaining Personhood” at a “Preferred Place” allowing for feelings of “Life Satisfaction.” A “Preferred Place” emerged as a basic requirement to achieving a good end of life according to the three other themes, in particular, “Maintaining Personhood.” However, the interviewees experienced difficulties in ensuring that their loved ones stayed at a “Preferred Place.”Conclusions:Despite different cultural backgrounds, perceptions of a good end of life with dementia were remarkably similar between Japan and Western countries. However, recent societal changes in family structures and long-term care access in Japan may explain the theme of a comfortable place taking a central position. We suggest that these themes be considered and translated into care goals. They could supplement established end-of-life care goals for quality of life in dementia, which aim to maximize functioning and increase comfort.TRIAL REGISTRATION NUMBEREthics Committee of the Graduate School and Faculty of Medicine, Kyoto University (R0808-2)

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