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Muslim Fathers and Mistrusted Masculinity in Danish Schools / by Anne Hovgaard Jørgensen

1st ed. 2023.

Cham : Springer International Publishing [2023.] ; Cham : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan [2023.], 2023

1 Online-Ressource(IX, 259 p.)

Englisch

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978-3-031-21626-8

978-3-031-21625-1 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 978-3-031-21627-5 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 978-3-031-21628-2 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

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Digital Object Identifier (DOI): 10.1007/978-3-031-21626-8

305.2 ; 306.87     Ähnliche Literatur

bicssc: JHBK ; bisacsh: SOC026010

LOC-SH: Emigration and immigration—Social aspects. ; Sociology. ; Social groups. ; Educational sociology. ; Sex. ; Welfare state. ; Anthropology. ; Emigration and immigration

1. Introduction -- 2. Social Alertness -- 3. Fathers and School -- 4. Struggling along -- 5. The Constraining Jobs -- 6. Construction of the “Dangerous Man” -- 7. Mistrusted Masculinity -- 8. Concerned Fatherhood -- 9. Conclusion.

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This book seeks to provide a deeper understanding of Muslim migrant fathers’ experiences of home-school cooperation in Danish schools by identifying and contradicting a phenomenon of “mistrusted masculinity.” This term refers to a negative stereotype of Muslim migrant men that figures in political and media rhetoric where they are portrayed as controlling and patriarchal. Throughout the ethnography, migrant fathers confront this stereotype and express how they must navigate around this negative image in their struggle to be acknowledged as good fathers by their children’s schools. Jørgensen uses Geertzian “thick description” of micro-interaction between fathers and Danish teachers to explore the complex interplay of often-untested assumptions, misunderstandings, and untoward effects. .