Intermarriage and Mixed Parenting, Promoting Mental Health and Wellbeing [electronic resource] : Crossover Love /
Singla, R.author.
Marriages across ethnic borders are increasing in frequency, yet little is known of how discourses of 'normal' families, ethnicity, race, migration, globalisation affect couples and children involved in these mixed marriages. This book explores mixed marriage though intimate stories drawn from the real lives of visibly different couples.
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Cover; Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Foreword; Acknowledgements; 1 Intimate Relationships across Ethnic (and Other) Borders; 1.1 Intermarriages in a global perspective; 1.2 Towards a conceptualisation of intermarriage; 1.3 Strengthening mixed partnering and parenting: applied aspects; 1.4 The book's structure; 2 Setting the Danish Scene and Mixedness Concept; 2.1 Historical background; 2.2 Intermarriage in contemporary Denmark; 2.3 Love, relationships and intimacy in the twenty-first century; 2.4 Statistical information; 2.5 Mixedness; 2.6 Categorisation, ethnicity and race
2.7 Theoretical framework3 Intermarried Couples and Their Experiences; 3.1 Methodological challenges and limitations; 3.2 Presentation of the research participants; 3.3 Analytical focus and the main themes; 4 Getting Together - 'Falling in Love'; 4.1 What brings intimate partners together?; 4.2 Getting together using the Trajectory Equifinality Model (TEM); 5 Managing Everyday Life; 5.1 Love, marriage and modernity; 5.2 The management of everyday life; 5.3 Couples in the honeymoon phase; 5.4 Couples in the family establishment phase; 5.5 Couples in the settled phase
6 Mixed Parenting Ideals and Practices6.1 The future generation and racial literacy; 6.2 Negotiating parenthood; 6.3 The 'single' approach; 6.4 The 'mixed' parenting approach; 6.5 The 'cosmopolitan' parenting approach; 7 Local Lives in a Transnational Context; 7.1 Negative experiences in the receiving society; 7.2 Positive experiences in the receiving society; 7.3 Indifferent experiences in the receiving society; 7.4 Transnationalism and diasporic relations; 8 Living 'Private Life in the Public Gaze': Mental Health and Wellbeing
8.1 Intersections of the private and the public: bringing the themes together8.2 A strategy of awareness and racial literacy; 8.3 A strategy of indifference; 8.4 Mental health and wellbeing; 8.5 Overarching themes: stereotyping, racial and ethnic hierarchies; 9 Implications for Strengthening Mixed Partnering and Parenting: Counselling and Psychotherapy; 9.1 Case example 1: her exit and his threshold - an act of balancing; 9.2 Case example 2: moving back and forth, the power of stereotypes and making up her own mind; 9.3 Lessons learnt - combining empirical research with clinical practice
9.4 Implications for psychosocial intervention - counselling and psychotherapy9.5 Concluding thoughts; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Marriages across ethnic borders are increasing in frequency, yet little is known of how discourses of 'normal' families, ethnicity, race, migration, globalisation affect couples and children involved in these mixed marriages. This book explores mixed marriage though intimate stories drawn from the real lives of visibly different couples.
Families.
Families-Social aspects.
Ethnicity.
Personality.
Social psychology.
Developmental psychology.
Social groups.
Family.
Family.
Ethnicity Studies.
Personality and Social Psychology.
Developmental Psychology.
Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging.