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Parenting challenges of African immigrants in Alberta, Canada.
- Source :
- Child & Family Social Work; Aug2020 Supplement S1, Vol. 25, p126-134, 9p, 1 Chart
- Publication Year :
- 2020
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Abstract
- African immigrant children and youth have some of the poorest social and mental health outcomes in Canada. Although parenting challenges have been widely documented as a key driver of these outcomes, limited systematic research has investigated this phenomenon. In this paper, we report the results of a study examining parenting challenges among a sample of African immigrant parents in Alberta, Canada. We relied on the theoretical lens of transnationalism to collect and analyse data from a purposive sample of African community leaders (n = 14), African immigrant parents (n = 32), and a range of stakeholders (n = 30). Our thematic data analysis revealed several intricately intertwined parenting challenges, organized around six overarching themes, namely, cultural incompatibility, family tension, state interference, limited social supports, poor access to services, and low socioeconomic status. We present these themes and the policy and service implications of our findings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- ACTION research
FOCUS groups
HEALTH services accessibility
PSYCHOLOGY of immigrants
INTERVIEWING
RESEARCH methodology
PARENTING
PSYCHOLOGY of parents
CULTURAL pluralism
RESEARCH funding
STATISTICAL sampling
ETHNOLOGY research
JUDGMENT sampling
FAMILY conflict
SOCIAL support
SOCIOECONOMIC factors
THEMATIC analysis
DATA analysis software
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 13567500
- Volume :
- 25
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Child & Family Social Work
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 144497740
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1111/cfs.12725