2013
DOI: 10.1111/imig.12046
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Migrant Men's Fathering Narratives, Practices and Projects in National and Transnational Spaces: Recent Polish Male Migrants to London

Abstract: Historically migrants have been constructed as units of labour and their social reproductive needs have received scant attention in policy and in academic literature. The growth in ‘feminist‐inflected’ migration research in recent decades, has provoked a body of work on transnational care‐giving that poses a challenge to such a construction, at least as it relates to female migrants in general and mothers in particular. Researchers, however, have demonstrated less interest in how migrant men give meaning to an… Show more

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“…Quite an important methodological note is that mothers were largely more willing to be interviewed and share their experiences of family migration, and they were also significantly more present in the places of recruitment. This finding is concurrent with the general difficulties in accessing men and fathers for other research projects concerning family, as noted by McKee and O'Brien (1983), Letherby (2003: 100-101;1993), and Kilkey, Plomien and Perrons (2013) -the last in the Polish context. Conclusively, while collecting narratives for this study was embedded in a small-scale approach which is by no means generalizable, the findings address a clearly under-researched theme in the scholarship on Polish family migrations seen from the fathers' perspective, even more novel in the context of the Norwegian destination society.…”
Section: Introductionsupporting
confidence: 78%
“…Quite an important methodological note is that mothers were largely more willing to be interviewed and share their experiences of family migration, and they were also significantly more present in the places of recruitment. This finding is concurrent with the general difficulties in accessing men and fathers for other research projects concerning family, as noted by McKee and O'Brien (1983), Letherby (2003: 100-101;1993), and Kilkey, Plomien and Perrons (2013) -the last in the Polish context. Conclusively, while collecting narratives for this study was embedded in a small-scale approach which is by no means generalizable, the findings address a clearly under-researched theme in the scholarship on Polish family migrations seen from the fathers' perspective, even more novel in the context of the Norwegian destination society.…”
Section: Introductionsupporting
confidence: 78%
“…Conducted by female researchers who responded to the neglect of fathering experiences in transnational migration, this research focused on "fathering narratives, practices, and projects of migrant men" (Kilkey et al 2014: 178), utilizing inquiry design and questions typically used in researching motherhood and its transnational practices. The study shows that when asked the same questions usually asked of women, men do reflect on and actively engage with issues of distant fatherhood, despite the relative silence in migration studies on these issues (Kilkey et al 2014). These examples reveal one of the main advantages of the interview as a method: it creates possibilities for expanding and refining one's original research agenda, adding previously unnoticed elements into research design, while gaining a fresh perspective on the roles and perspectives of the actors.…”
Section: The Interview As a Methods That Allows Researchers To Developmentioning
confidence: 87%
“…(Rudo,female,39) Interviews with fathers were equally heavily characterised by expressions of failure, guilt and shame, yet male asylum-seekers' sentiments were mainly related to their inability as fathers to financially provide for the children left behind. In the context of economic migrants, remittances provide insights into the issue of power dynamics within transnational family relations whereby fathers may choose to withhold sending money to their children as a form of 'distant disciplining' (Kilkey et al, 2014). In contrast, asylum fathers communicated a genuine failure to satisfy their traditional breadwinning role that was routinely experienced as a loss of 'one's masculinity' (Rask et al, 2014).…”
Section: Parents' Powerlessness To Support and Protect The Children Lmentioning
confidence: 99%