Mixed Family Life in the UK

Mixed Family Life in the UK
Author: M. Nakamura Lopez
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 243
Release: 2017-09-03
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3319577565

This book offers a nuanced picture of mixed family life in the UK. Specifically, the book explores how parents from different backgrounds create a place of belonging for their children, while also negotiating difference and attempting to transmit various aspects of their cultures, including religion, hobbies, language and food to their mixed children. Based on data collected from 26 months of fieldwork, the author concludes that the intergenerational transmission of culture, instead of being tied to the idea of "national culture", is actually more organic and fluid, allowing individuals to share their "cultures", from traditions and customs to preferences and habits, with the next generation. As mixedness increasingly becomes the norm in our global society, the book will be of interest to students and scholars of race, ethnicity and family studies, as well as social workers, school teachers, counsellors, and parents and kin of mixed children.

Indian Migrants' Guide to Life in the U.K.

Indian Migrants' Guide to Life in the U.K.
Author: Conrad Riker
Publisher: Conrad Riker
Total Pages: 251
Release: 101-01-01
Genre: Humor
ISBN:

Are you an Indian man finding it hard to adjust to life in the U.K.? Struggling to balance your traditions with British culture? This book is for you! Are you worried about finding a job and providing for your family? Unsure how to navigate the U.K.'s educational system or avoid social services? Look no further! In this practical guide, you'll discover: 1. How to integrate your Indian customs and traditions into British society. 2. Strategies for navigating the U.K. job market as an Indian immigrant. 3. Tips on maintaining financial stability for you and your family in the U.K.. 4. A deeper understanding of British culture and values to avoid conflict with your Indian background. 5. Parenting techniques for raising well-adjusted Indian children in the U.K.. 6. The importance of community support and networking for Indian migrants in the U.K.. 7. How to successfully establish a small business in the U.K. for Indian immigrants. 8. A comprehensive understanding of the British educational system and how to select the best schools for your children. Don't let the challenges of Indian-British life catch you off guard. Get this book today and master the art of thriving as an Indian immigrant in the U.K.!

Mixed Families in a Transnational World

Mixed Families in a Transnational World
Author: Josiane Le Gall
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 207
Release: 2021-11-29
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1000484777

Offering a transnational perspective on the processes of identity transmission and identity construction of mixed families in various parts of the world, this book provides an overview of how local, national, global contexts and inter-group relations structure the development of specific forms of belonging and identification. Featuring nine rich ethnographic studies situated in geographic areas less covered by scholarship on mixed families such as Québec, Morocco, Italy, France, Switzerland, Belgium, the Philippines, Thailand and Israel, the book’s contributions reveal how families’ everyday lives are shaped by historical and sociopolitical contexts, as well as by transnational dynamics and mobility trajectories. The studies illustrate the context-specific realities that shape social definitions of mixedness—whether religious, national, cultural, ethnic or racial—at local and transnational levels. The articulation of local and transnational perspectives on mixed families will be of interest to students and scholars of migration, transnationalism, families, ethnicity, race and racism in the social sciences (anthropology, sociology, history, social work, international relations and global studies). The book will also be of interest to policymakers, as well as activists and practitioners working in organizations offering services to mixed individuals, migrants, and their families.

Coming To, and Staying In, the Poorest Country in the EU

Coming To, and Staying In, the Poorest Country in the EU
Author: Petko Hristov
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 211
Release: 2023-07-11
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1527517551

This book is a multi-layered scientific study of the immigrants who have come to Bulgaria since 1990 – specifically, their patterns of movement, settlement, social networks, identity dynamics, integration and adaptation, their impact on the social environment, and changes in the cultural specifics. Until recently, studies on immigration in Bulgaria have mainly been oriented towards particular communities within the framework of ethnic studies. The chapters in this volume do not ignore immigrants’ ethnicity and origins, but their main focus is reasons for migration, be they economic, educational, political, marital, or lifestyle-based. The book examines several important factors of settlement in Bulgaria: interaction between the local population and immigrants, stereotypes and attitudes towards the newcomers, as well as the influence of local, kinship, and social networks and contacts.

Educating Children from Cross-Border Marriages

Educating Children from Cross-Border Marriages
Author: Glenn Toh
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 137
Release: 2023-01-10
Genre: Education
ISBN: 3031225368

This book analyses how children from transnational Japanese-Singaporean families are educated. The author demonstrates that the negotiated educational pathways of these children have significant bearing on the ways in which individual identities of mixedness may be constructed or contested – where notions of mixedness are necessarily recognised for their inherent fluidity, contextuality and contingency. This interdisciplinary book will be of interest to students and scholars across the fields of education, neoliberalism, globalization, multiculturalism, mobility and cross-border migration.

Immigration Detention and Social Harm

Immigration Detention and Social Harm
Author: Michelle Peterie
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 201
Release: 2024-07-31
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1040036724

This interdisciplinary edited collection is the first internationally to comprehensively explore the harms immigration detention imposes beyond the ‘detainee’. Bringing together research from North America, the UK, Europe and Australia, it shows how the harms immigration detention imposes ramify beyond singular bodies, moments and locations – reverberating through families and communities and echoing across time. The book is structured in three parts. Part One: Human Costs, examines the harms immigration detention imposes on people who are not personally incarcerated, but whose lives are nonetheless entangled with detention regimes. Part Two: Societal Consequences highlights the corrosive impacts of immigration detention at the societal level, including the role migrant incarceration plays in naturalising and perpetuating inequalities and injustices. Part Three: Ending the Harm interrogates the possibilities of detention reform and detention abolition. This book will be a key reference text for scholars and students in the social and behavioural sciences who are interested in immigration detention, human rights and/or incarceration.

Mixed Race Britain in The Twentieth Century

Mixed Race Britain in The Twentieth Century
Author: Chamion Caballero
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 557
Release: 2018-05-07
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1137339284

This book explores the overlooked history of racial mixing in Britain during the course of the twentieth century, a period in which there was considerable and influential public debate on the meanings and implications of intimately crossing racial boundaries. Based on research that formed the foundations of the British television series Mixed Britannia, the authors draw on a range of firsthand accounts and archival material to compare ‘official’ accounts of racial mixing and mixedness with those told by mixed race people, couples and families themselves. Mixed Race Britain in The Twentieth Century shows that alongside the more familiarly recognised experiences of social bigotry and racial prejudice there can also be glimpsed constant threads of tolerance, acceptance, inclusion and ‘ordinariness’. It presents a more complex and multifaceted history of mixed race Britain than is typically assumed, one that adds to the growing picture of the longstanding diversity and difference that is, and always has been, an ordinary and everyday feature of British life.

Diversity, Culture and Counselling, 3rd Ed.

Diversity, Culture and Counselling, 3rd Ed.
Author: M. Honore France
Publisher: Brush Education
Total Pages: 606
Release: 2021-09-27
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1550598759

A uniquely Canadian approach to multicultural counselling In a country as diverse as Canada, a multicultural counselling approach provides an essential starting point for working with people from different ethnicities, sexualities, gender identities, abilities and religious backgrounds. Bringing Canadian perspectives to the field of multicultural counselling, this collection provides practical approaches to counselling in Indigenous, Asian, Black Canadian, Hispanic, South Asian and LGBTQ2+ communities, among others, along with advice for treating migrant and refugee clients. The third edition of Diversity, Culture and Counselling addresses crucial issues such as systemic racism, immigration policy, climate change, and discriminatory policies, reflecting the many changes that have arisen in Canada since the publication of the second edition. Along with an all-new chapter on counselling during a national crisis, each chapter has been revised to reflect the current state of diversity in Canadian counselling with contributors from a range of backgrounds.

Family Life in England and America, 1690–1820, vol 1

Family Life in England and America, 1690–1820, vol 1
Author: Rachel Cope
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 420
Release: 2021-12-24
Genre: History
ISBN: 1000558819

This four-volume collection of primarily newly transcribed manuscript material brings together sources from both sides of the Atlantic and from a wide variety of regional archives. It is the first collection of its kind, allowing comparisons between the development of the family in England and America during a time of significant change. Volume 1: Many Families The eighteenth-century family group was a varied one. Documents attest to religious and racial diversity, as well as the hardships endured by the poor and working classes, such as widows, orphans and those born outside wedlock. Fictive families are also examined alongside more traditional family units bound by blood or law.