scholarly journals Doing Family Memory in the Case of Emigration Experience

2020 ◽  
pp. 155-180
Author(s):  
Laima Žilinskienė
Keyword(s):  
Family Members ◽  
Representative Survey ◽  
Family Work ◽  
Family Solidarity ◽  
Migrant Families

This chapter present the importance of memory making in migrant families lives and how emigrants ‘do’ family memory. A representative survey of Lithuanian residents shows that those with emigration experience since 1990 participate in family memory construction more actively. The development of such communicative family memory is family work which demonstrates family solidarity and occurs between and within generations. However, this research shows that gender, age and location influence who is involved in this process with men and younger family members less likely to participate.

Intergenerational Family Solidarity

GeroPsych ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 71-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tatjana Kiilo ◽  
Kairi Kasearu ◽  
Dagmar Kutsar
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
At Risk ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Emotional Support ◽  
First Generation ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Family Solidarity ◽  
Migrant Families ◽  
First Generation Migrants ◽  
Main Factor

Abstract. This paper focuses on the provision of help and care to the older generation, comparing the situation of those in Estonia with migrant backgrounds to those with nonmigrant backgrounds. The empirical evidence suggests that, in the case of Estonia, the main factor determining attenuated family solidarity is proximity between family members. Thus, mainly first-generation migrants whose parents live more than 100 km away are at risk from weakened family bonds. The analysis points out significant gender differences, where men are more often deprived of help and emotional support. More relations of solidarity in migrant families where different generations move together are assumed, but the empirical evidence for this conjecture is far from conclusive.

scholarly journals Palliative care for older South Asian migrants: A systematic review

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 346-358 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jahan Shabnam ◽  
Helle Timm ◽  
Dorthe S. Nielsen ◽  
Mette Raunkiaer
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Palliative Care ◽  
South Asian ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Care Practice ◽  
Care Needs ◽  
International Evidence ◽  
Migrant Families ◽  
Care Decision

AbstractObjectiveSouth Asian migrants have a higher burden of life-threatening diseases and chronic diseases compared to other ethnic groups. Yet, knowledge gaps remain around their palliative care needs in the host countries. The aim of the review was to present results from a systematic literature review of available international evidence on experiences with and perspectives on palliative care among older South Asian migrants, relatives, and healthcare providers.MethodsA systematic review in accordance with PRISMA guidelines was conducted in February 2018, searching PubMed, CINAHL, PsychINFO, and EMBASE databases. PROSPERO #CRD42018093464. Studies included empirical research, providing international evidence on experiences and perspectives on palliative care of South Asian migrants and were published between 2000 and 2018. Thematic synthesis was used to analyze data.ResultsA total of 30 articles were included: qualitative (24), quantitative (5), and mixed methods (1). Three main themes were discovered: 1) palliative care practice within the family, 2) trust as a precondition of palliative care, and 3) the importance of knowledge and cultural competency. All the themes, to a greater or lesser extent, are related to access to and use of palliative care services by South Asian migrant families.Significance of resultsInvolvement of family members in palliative care decision making could improve the satisfaction of South Asian migrant families toward the service. For example, Advanced Care Planning involving family members could be a possible way to engage family members in palliative care decision making. Supportive interventions, e.g. providing knowledge, aimed at patients and their family members might improve knowledge and increase awareness among South Asian migrant families of palliative care. Knowledge gained from this review could be implemented with other ethnic minority groups.

scholarly journals Are we there yet?

2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 235-236 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gráinne Fadden
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Peer Support ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Family Work ◽  
Implementation Challenges ◽  
And Training ◽  
Support Model

SUMMARYBurbach describes the content of a phased approach to delivering family work in psychosis. Clinicians would find it helpful to have guidance on how to address the challenges they face in clinical practice, such as engaging all family members in the process and how to deal with confidentiality conflicts. Implementation challenges are also likely to affect their ability to deliver this intervention. It may also be useful to consider the role that family members can play in co-production and training, and in delivering support to other families through a carer peer support model.DECLARATION OF INTERESTNone.

scholarly journals Migrant families with children in Montreal, Canada and transnational family support: a protocol for a focused ethnography

BMJ Open ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (9) ◽  
pp. e029074
Author(s):  
Lisa Merry ◽  
Jill Hanley ◽  
Monica Ruiz-Casares ◽  
Isabelle Archambault ◽  
Dominic Mogere
Keyword(s):  
Family Support ◽  
Home Country ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Forced Migration ◽  
Focused Ethnography ◽  
Transnational Family ◽  
Migrant Families ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Families With Children ◽  
The Impact

IntroductionThere is a gap in research regarding transnational family support (emotional, practical, spiritual, informational and financial) as a resource for migrant families with children. From the perspective of migrant families and their family back home, the objectives of this study are to (1) identify the types and ways that transnational family support is provided to migrant families in Canada; (2) assess for patterns in the data that may suggest variations in the nature of this support (eg, by migration status, time in Canada, children’s ages, family circumstances) and over time and (3) explore the impact (positive and negative) in receiving and providing transnational support, respectively.Methods and analysisA focused ethnography is planned. We will recruit 25–35 migrant families with children with different migration histories (eg, economic or forced migration from a mix of countries) and family circumstances (eg, single parenthood, families living with extended family, families with children in the home country) living in Montreal, Canada. Families will be recruited through community organisations. Data will be gathered via semistructured interviews. To capture the perspective of those providing support, family members in the home country for each migrant family will also be recruited and interviewed through communication technology (eg, WhatsApp). Data collection will also involve observation of ‘transnational interactions’ between family members in Montreal and those back home. Data will be thematically analysed and results reported in a narrative form with an in-depth description of each theme.Ethics and disseminationEthical approval was obtained from the sciences and health research ethics committee at the University of Montreal. Study results will be shared through traditional forums (publication, conference presentations) and via other knowledge dissemination/exchange activities (eg, ‘lunch and learn conferences’ and seminars) through the research team’s research centres and networks to reach front-line care-providers who interface directly with migrant families.

An Organizational Development/Team-Building Approach to Consultation with Family Businesses

1989 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sam H. Lane
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Development ◽  
Team Building ◽  
Business Management ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Family Businesses ◽  
Applied Psychology ◽  
Business Decisions ◽  
Family Work ◽  
Development Team ◽  
The Family

The approach to consultation with family businesses described in this article emphasizes having the family work as a team on issues and problems affecting the business and the family. Combining the insights of applied psychology with principles of sound business management, it aims at helping the family learn to make good business decisions while maintaining positive relationships among family members.

scholarly journals “My Whole Family Is Not Really My Family”—Secure Care Shadows on Family and Family Practices Among Young Adults and Their Family Members

2021 ◽  
pp. 0192513X2110300
Author(s):  
Sofia Enell ◽  
Monika Wilińska
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Family Work ◽  
Secure Care ◽  
Institutional Placement ◽  
Family Practices ◽  
History Of ◽  
Birth Family

This study based in Sweden explores family practices and family displays among young adults with a history of secure care, which limits and restricts contacts and therefore causes fundamental changes in relationships. Almost 10 years after institutional placement, narrations of 11 young adults and 11 nominated family members reveal ongoing struggles between imagined and lived realities of family. These struggles are revealed by memories and emotions evoked by the context of secure care and show how deeply the secure care penetrated their family lives. By using the metaphor of shadows, shadows of recalled horror of secure care (reflecting family displacement) and the pressure to make family work (reflecting restricting practices in secure care where only (birth) family were considered as family and relations of (natural) importance) are discerned. We call for more attention to the perversity of secure care arrangements, at both policy and institutional levels.

Collaborative family work in youth justice

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Trotter
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Youth Justice ◽  
Family Interventions ◽  
Family Work ◽  
Powerful Factor ◽  
Work Model ◽  
Structured Interventions

Structured family interventions can be a powerful factor in reducing offending among young people, however, they are rarely offered in youth justice settings. This chapter reports on a project in which youth justice workers in NSW, Australia, provided collaborative family work to young people and their families. The chapter outlines the collaborative family work model and the responses from workers and family members to the intervention. It provides information which may assist youth justice services to provide similar structured interventions for client families.

Home as a mixture of spaces during the COVID-19 pandemic: The case of migrant families in Poland

2021 ◽  
Vol 65 (3) ◽  
pp. 27-45
Author(s):  
Anzhela Popyk
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Private Household ◽  
Private Institutions ◽  
Migrant Families ◽  
Social Diffusion ◽  
At Home

The spread of the coronavirus has led to significant modifications in the majority of social and private institutions. For most families, home is now the location of many activities that are usually kept separate, such as work, school, entertainment, and socialising. Migrant families, for whom the school was the primary place for socialising, were forced to “host” school at home. As a result, migrant families’ homes have been reconstructed from a private household and intimate dwelling place into a mixture of spaces. This paper applies the theory of social diffusion developed by Dodd and Winthrop, and the concept of social solvation designed by Sarnowska et al., to study the diffusion of places at the time of lockdown. The data are derived from a qualitative study of migrant families in Poland during the school shutdown. This study investigates how the mixture of various places within the home has affected the lives of family members.

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