Franceschelli, MF;
Schoon, IS;
Evans, KE;
(2017)
'Your past makes you who you are': retrospective parenting and relational resilience amongst Black Caribbean British young people.
Sociological Research Online
, 22
(4)
pp. 48-65.
10.1177/1360780417726957.
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Abstract
In this article, we explore how Black Caribbean parents prepare their children for the challenges ahead–including anticipated discrimination–in order to boost their opportunities in education and work and eventually their social mobility. Drawing upon family case studies with Black Caribbean families in London, this article focuses on what we have defined as retrospective parenting to mean the use of narratives about the past as resources for parenting. Retrospective parenting draws on the struggles of a cumulative past and aims to transmit a sense of relational resilience, drawing simultaneously on individual, family, and community histories. We found that retrospective parenting had restorative purposes, with parents not only aiming to make up for their missed opportunities but also being preventive and progressive, conveying aims with forward-looking implications for the future of their children.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | 'Your past makes you who you are': retrospective parenting and relational resilience amongst Black Caribbean British young people |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1177/1360780417726957 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1360780417726957 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
| Keywords: | Black Caribbean young people; Black Caribbean families; intergenerational; education; migration; parenting; life chances; social mobility; resilience |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Social Research Institute |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1567950 |
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