Assessment with Fathers: Recognizing Strengths, Challenges, and Contexts

Shadik, Jennifer A.; Shafer, Kevin

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-13686-3_6

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“…This is especially true for child protection workers, whose assessments carry great weight in the lives of refugee families. Too often, fathers are dismissed, considered unimportant, uninvolved, even dangerous (Shadik & Shafer, 2023, p. 93). Those who work in the child protection system should be aware of the importance of fathers’ roles, as well as the challenges refugees face when leaving everything behind.…”

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Fathering Here, Fathering There… A Phenomenological Study of the Impact of Forced Migration and Resettlement on Syrian Refugee Fathers in Canada

Mhamied

Bogossian

Hanley

2023

The Journal of Men’s Studies

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Refugee fathers have been largely ignored by family researchers and service providers. This article presents an interpretive phenomenological analysis (IPA) of data from semi-structured interviews conducted between November 2020 and March 2021 with 17 Syrian refugee fathers resettled in Canada. The interviews focused on the meanings refugee men gave to fatherhood, their fathering practices, and the sense they made of their experience of being a Syrian refugee father in Canada. This article highlights how Syrian fatherhood is shaped by cultural norms of the home country as well as by religious beliefs. However, participants’ definitions of fatherhood as head of the household, primary breadwinners and decisionmakers in the family, holding unique positions both within their families and in their communities, shifted during the resettlement process. Following resettlement, these meanings were revisited and redefined. Hyper-fatherhood and adjusted fatherhood practices are new types of fatherhood that emerged during resettlement for Syrian refugees.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%