Parenting and the Process of Migration: Possibilities Within South Asian Families

Parenting and the Process of Migration: Possibilities Within South Asian Families

Deepak, Anne C.

South Asian American Immigration

The migration experience creates a unique set of challenges for families, which can result in intergenerational conflict and create the conditions for abuse or neglect. Alternatively, families can cope with these challenges in creative and seemingly contradictory ways, thus strengthening family relationships. This article introduces the process of migration as a theoretical framework to use in understanding the complexity of the migration experience as well as the wide range of coping responses within families. The process was developed as a theoretical tool in an ethnographic study of first- and second-generation South Asian women in the United States; the study's findings are used to illustrate the application of the process to South Asian parenting experiences and show how the process of migration—where families adjust to a different set of structural conditions, ideologies, cultural norms, and social systems—shapes parenting and family life.

Child Welfare League of America

2005

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pp. 585-606

https://www.jstor.org/stable/45398734
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