Overview
- Provides unique insight in the understudied area of migrant parents' relationships with schools, specifically fathers
- Introduces "mistrusted masculinity" to explain how gender intersects racialized and discriminatory practices in Denmark
- Gives voice to Muslim migrant fathers in a time of growing Euro-American white nationalism
Part of the book series: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life (PSFL)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
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.
Reviews
“A much-needed book! Through solid ethnographic investigations, it opens our eyes for the vital personal consequences that the widespread derogatory stereotypes on Muslim migrant men have on Muslim fathers' lives as parents. With insight and thoroughness, the author shows how influential the strong negative narratives are for the everyday collaboration between teachers and fathers and how difficult it is for individual fathers to counter the image. The empathy with both fathers' and teachers' experiences is unique.” (Eva Gulløv, Professor of Educational Anthropology, Aarhus University, Denmark, and co-author of Children of the Welfare State: Civilising Practices in Schools, Childcare and Families (2017))
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Anne Hovgaard Jørgensen is Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Sociology and Social Work at Aalborg University, Denmark. She has recently contributed to the book Arab Masculinities (2022).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Muslim Fathers and Mistrusted Masculinity in Danish Schools
Authors: Anne Hovgaard Jørgensen
Series Title: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-21626-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-21625-1Published: 17 March 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-21628-2Published: 17 March 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-21626-8Published: 16 March 2023
Series ISSN: 2731-6440
Series E-ISSN: 2731-6459
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 259
Topics: Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging, Sociology of Education, Gender Studies, Politics of the Welfare State, Anthropology, Migration