Overview
- Explores the challenges and rewards associated with the intergenerational transmission of culture in mixed families
- Covers a range of topics including food, language and friendship
- Captures mixed families' everyday experiences
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life (PSFL)
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About this book
This book offers a nuanced picture of mixed family life in the UK. Specifically, the book explores how parents from different backgrounds create a place of belonging for their children, while also negotiating difference and attempting to transmit various aspects of their cultures, including religion, hobbies, language and food to their mixed children. Based on data collected from 26 months of fieldwork, the author concludes that the intergenerational transmission of culture, instead of being tied to the idea of "national culture", is actually more organic and fluid, allowing individuals to share their "cultures", from traditions and customs to preferences and habits, with the next generation.
As mixedness increasingly becomes the norm in our global society, the book will be of interest to students and scholars of race, ethnicity and family studies, as well as social workers, school teachers, counsellors, and parents and kin of mixed children.Reviews
“A powerful study [...] timely and important work.” (Allan Luke, Queensland University of Technology, Australia)
“Convincingly shows how mixedness is more than just a description of the racial/ethnic makeup of couples or individuals; it is a way of life.” (Syed Ali, Long Island University-Brooklyn, USA)
“Though her nuanced observations and insightful considerations of mixed families' daily life [...] we can learn what 'doing family' means among not only mixed families but also family in general, which has been often taken for granted.” (Takehiko Kariya, University of Oxford, UK)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
M. Nakamura Lopez is a sociologist and freelance writer. Her research interests include mixedness, migration, and transnational families.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Mixed Family Life in the UK
Book Subtitle: An Ethnographic Study of Japanese-British Families
Authors: M. Nakamura Lopez
Series Title: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57756-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-57755-5Published: 20 September 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-86239-2Published: 10 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-57756-2Published: 03 September 2017
Series ISSN: 2731-6440
Series E-ISSN: 2731-6459
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 238
Topics: Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging, Ethnicity Studies, Asian Culture