The cultural adjustment of Asian lone mothers living in London

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    • Sinha, Rachana

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The cultural adjustment of Asian lone mothers living in London

Rachana Sinha

Ashgate, c1998

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注記

Includes bibliographical references (p. 220-228)

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内容説明

This text sets out to discover whether 90 Asian lone mothers from the Indian and African sub-continent living in London experience additional problems to white lone mothers because of their different ethnic and cultural background. This investigation is wholly devoted to the experience of Asian lone mothers, with the aim that it will shed some light on any difficulties specific to their group. Although most of the 90 women acknowledge that the Asian culture could cause them difficulties, being far more conservative that the English culture regarding marriage, the family, the position of women, marriage breakdown and lone parenthood, this did not mean that all their experiences were negative. Even though the majority of mothers no longer saw their former partners, they were not isolated from their family and friends or the local community, with whom they shared amicable relationships as well as receiving various types of support. Although many of the sample said they were suffering from some mental and emotional complaints because of their lone parent status, their general outlook was largely positive. Lastly, it found that the low living conditions of the mothers were similar to those of the lone parent population at large living in Britain.

目次

  • Models of race relations: the marginal personality
  • the marginal situation
  • cultural deficit model
  • liberal pluralism
  • the Marxist perspective
  • black perspectives
  • feminist perspectives cultural pluralism
  • conclusion. Family values in Hindu, Muslim and Sikh cultures: Hindu culture
  • Muslim culture
  • Sikh culture
  • conclusion. Methodology and the sample: methodology procedures
  • profile of the sample
  • conclusion. Living conditions of lone parent Asian mothers living in London: employment
  • income
  • housing
  • physical health
  • conclusion. The mothers' attitudes towards marriage, the family and the position of women: the mothers' attitudes towards marriage
  • the mothers' attitudes towards losing the family honour
  • the mothers' attitudes towards the position of women
  • conclusion. Six mothers' attitudes towards marriage breakdown and lone parenthood: the mothers' own attitudes towards marriage breakdown
  • the mothers' attitudes towards how others perceived them as lone parents
  • the mothers' attitudes towards loss of marital status in the Asian community
  • the mothers' attitudes towards their being lone parents
  • conclusion. The mothers' experiences of lone parenthood: the mothers' contact and attachment with the father
  • the mothers' relationship with family and friends
  • the mothers' contact with social organizations
  • the children's contact and attachment with the father
  • conclusion. Types of adjustment - cultural and psychological: the mothers' cultural adjustment
  • the mothers' psychological adjustment
  • conclusion. Conclusions: the research process
  • the mothers' living standards
  • the mothers' cultural attitudes
  • the mothers' relationships
  • the mothers' adjustments
  • policy implications.

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