Understanding the Effects of Involuntary Migration on Family Relationships: Meaning Construction by Parents and Service Providers

Ashbourne, Lynda M.; Atalla, Sahar; Jamal, Abir Al; Baobaid, Mohammed Faez

doi:10.1080/10720537.2019.1700852

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“…In this case, as articulated by Morgan (2020: 735), the family 'may be described as being "close" or "distant" and this closeness or otherwise is not simply in genealogical terms or geographically but also emotional terms'. In order words, on his arrival in Sweden, Yusuf was physically safe but emotionally and socially unsafe/distant (see also Vitus, 2011;Coe, 2014;Ashbourne et al, 2021). Accordingly, it is understandable that Yusuf, as scholars have shown, also found it difficult to initiate social connections and participate in community life in Sweden (Hynie, 2018b).…”

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“…More recently, a growing body of literature, partly in the field of work-related migration family studies, has also recognised the significance of family life among refugees seeking asylum (Ashbourne et al, 2021). This research has shown that refugee families have to handle not only the support system that may or may not be available to families, for instance parental leave policies, but also welfare entitlements, threats of deportation, and more (Vitus, 2011;Nakeyar et al, 2018).…”

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Family practices, deportability and administrative violence: an ethnographic study on asylum seekers’ family life in the Swedish migration context

Andreasson

Herz

2022

Families, Relationships and Societies

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Utilising data gathered through ethnographic fieldwork this article investigates (a) how asylum seekers portray family life in relation to their decision to flee their country of origin, and (b) how asylum seekers’ ways of doing family life intersect with the Swedish migration context. Analytically, the article leans on sociologically informed theories of family practices and a conceptual discussion on deportability. The results show how family life among the participants is reconstituted both in terms of geographical closeness and distance, and in terms of ideas about a previous family life in the country of origin and hopes for a possible future in Sweden. The insecurity and the strains placed on people and their family bonds by current migration policies, and the risk of deportation, are interpreted as a specific form of administrative violence that cuts into family practices, serving to maintain physical and emotional distance between family members and break down social bonds.

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Family practices, deportability and administrative violence: an ethnographic study on asylum seekers’ family life in the Swedish migration context

Andreasson

Herz

2022

Families, Relationships and Societies

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“…Third, many MNP initially experience economic insecurity and downward economic mobility after relocating abroad. This economic degradation stems from their forced abandonment of economic, human, and social capital in their country of origin (Ashbourne, Atalla, Al Jamal, & Baobaid, 2021), as well barriers to securing steady income in their new location. Such barriers can include the absence of a work permit, rejection of professional credentials acquired in their country of origin, and discrimination in the labor market, among others (Betancourt et al, 2015).…”

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“…Children’s quicker acculturation may lead them to feel resettled in the receiving context (Björn et al, 2013), even when their parents do not (Peek et al, 2011). Divergence in parents’ and children’s acculturation and resettlement can further contribute to role ambiguity and conflict within MNP families (Ashbourne et al, 2021; McCleary, Shannon, Wieling, & Becher, 2020; Samuel, 2009; Weine et al, 2004).…”

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International Displacement and Family Stress in Latin America

Weitzman

Huss

Blanton

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Journal of Family Issues

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Family stress theories posit that individual family members are positioned to adapt to external stressors differently and that these differences can strain family systems. Analyzing in-depth interviews with a diverse sample of migrant mothers in Costa Rica, we investigate how families adjust to the stressors of international displacement. Three stages of family stress adjustment emerged from our analysis: (1) parents’ prioritization of safety, (2) parents’ and children’s grappling with new legal, economic, and social circumstances, and (3) parents’ protracted uncertainty in one or more of these realms concomitant with children’s feeling resettled. A fourth stage of (4) convergent parent and child resettling also emerged, but only among select families who enjoyed stable financial or emotional support from extended kin or local institutions in Costa Rica. Parents’ perceptions of their security, and social, economic, and legal circumstances contributed to the progression between stages of stress adjustment.

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“…Syrian men are no exception to this tragic situation; studies found they reported “lower self-esteem … [that] in some cases led to a negative expression of masculinity” (Harvey et al, 2013, p. 14), sometimes resulting in different forms of gender-based violence. For parents and children, the loss of their home social environments has resulted in social isolation, a lack of social and emotional support, influencing parenting practices, both during displacement and in refugee camps (Ashbourne et al, 2021; El-Khani & Calam, 2019).…”

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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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Understanding the Effects of Involuntary Migration on Family Relationships: Meaning Construction by Parents and Service Providers

Cited by 7 publications

References 45 publications

Family practices, deportability and administrative violence: an ethnographic study on asylum seekers’ family life in the Swedish migration context

Family practices, deportability and administrative violence: an ethnographic study on asylum seekers’ family life in the Swedish migration context

International Displacement and Family Stress in Latin America

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

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