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- Title
How Adolescent Children of African Jamaican Immigrants Living in Canada Perceive and Negotiate their Roles within a Matrifocal Family.
- Authors
NAVARA, GEOFFREY S.; LOLLIS, SUSAN
- Abstract
This research project examined the adolescent/young adult-parent relationships of African Jamaican immigrants currently living in Canada. Specifically, we focused on the transmission of cultural values and beliefs within these relationships and how the adolescents navigated and negotiated potential changes in these values because of their acculturative experiences. An examination of various mundane family/cultural practices provided insight into perceived transmission attempts by parents and the adolescent/young adult interpretation of these attempts. Twenty in-depth interviews were conducted with adolescent/young adult members of African Jamaican immigrant families living in Canada. Using Grounded Theory methodology (Glaser & Strauss, 1967), several themes emerged during the analysis of the interviews—the most significant being the issue of matrifocality within the African Jamaican family. Issues of respect and adolescent agency are also discussed as they related to the manner in which the adolescent/young adult attempted to negotiate various roles within the family.
- Subjects
CANADA; ACCULTURATION; PARENT-child relationships; SOCIALIZATION; CULTURAL values; IMMIGRANTS
- Publication
Family Process, 2009, Vol 48, Issue 3, p441
- ISSN
0014-7370
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1545-5300.2009.01294.x