ISBN:
9780739118818
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (358 p)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als On New Shores : Understanding Immigrant Fathers in North America
DDC:
304.87
Keywords:
Fathers -- North America -- Social conditions
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Immigrants -- North America -- Social conditions
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North America -- Emigration and immigration
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
On New Shores focuses on immigrant fathers in North America and provides readers with a richer and more comprehensive approach to how researchers, practitioners, and social policymakers can examine immigrant fathering among ethnic minority families. The chapters focus on the various methodological advances used to explicitly investigate immigrant fathers
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Figures and Tables; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1. Multidisciplinary and Multi-Methodological Approaches on Fathering in Immigrant Families; Chapter 2. The Many Faces of Fatherhood: Some Thoughts about Fatherhood and Immigration; Chapter 3. Family Acculturation and Change: Recent Comparative Research; Chapter 4. Immigrant Fathers: A Demographic Portrait; Chapter 5. Immigrant Fathers' Labor Market Activity and Its Consequences for the Family; Chapter 6. Transcending Confucian Teachings on Fathering: A Sign of the Times or Acculturation?
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 7. Asian Immigrant Fathers as Primary Caregivers of AdolescentsChapter 8. Korean Immigrant Fathering: Dealing with Two Cultures; Chapter 9. Acculturation via Creolization: Constructing Latino American Fathering Identities; Chapter 10. Immigration and Latino Fatherhood: A Preliminary Look at Latino Immigrant and Non-Immigrant Fathers; Chapter 11. Breaking New Ground: Dominican, Mexican, and Chinese Fathers and Families; Chapter 12. Studying Immigrant Fathering: Methodological and Conceptual Challenges; Chapter 13. Imagining the Future of Immigrant Fathers; Author Index; Subject Index
Description / Table of Contents:
About the EditorsList of Contributors
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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