Intermarriage and mixed parenting, promoting mental health and wellbeing: crossover love

"The world is currently witnessing a significant growth in marriages across ethnic borders, but relatively little is known of how discourses of 'normal' families, ethnicity, race, migration, globalisation affect couples and children involved in these mixed marriages.This book illumina...

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1. Verfasser: Singla, Rashmi (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Basingstoke [u.a.] Palgrave Macmillan 2015
Ausgabe:1. publ.
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Zusammenfassung:"The world is currently witnessing a significant growth in marriages across ethnic borders, but relatively little is known of how discourses of 'normal' families, ethnicity, race, migration, globalisation affect couples and children involved in these mixed marriages.This book illuminates the reality of mixed marriage though intimate stories drawn from the lives of visibly different couples. The testimonies describe rich possibilities and bitter disappointments, offering lessons for services promoting mental health and wellbeing, and for improving psychosocial intervention. The book will be of interest to academics in anthropology, sociology, psychology and social work, as well as practitioners including psychologists, counsellors, school advisors, and health workers"--
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (pages 228-240) and index
Machine generated contents note: -- 1. Intimate Relationships across Ethnic (and Other) Borders -- 2. Setting the Danish Scene and Mixedness Concept -- 3. The Intermarried Couples and their Experiences -- 4. Getting Together -- 'Falling in Love' -- 5. Managing Everyday Life -- 6. Mixed Parenting Ideals and Practices -- 7. Local Lives in a Transnational Context -- 8. Living 'Private Life in the Public Gaze': Mental Health and Wellbeing -- 9. Implications for Strengthening Mixed Partnering and Parenting: Counselling and Psychotherapy
Beschreibung:XIII, 249 S. graph. Darst. 23 cm

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