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TY - CHAP
T1 - Critically assessing the methodological challenges of exploring Chinese immigrant fathers
AU - Chuang, Susan S.
AU - Li, Xuan
AU - Huang, Ching-Yu
AU - Hu, Yang
PY - 2021/3/21
Y1 - 2021/3/21
N2 - Immigrant Chinese fathers remain severely under-researched despite their sizable and growing presence in host countries around the world and recent progress in research on immigrant and ethnic minority fathers. In this chapter, we review the major themes and methods used in existing studies involving immigrant Chinese fathers and explore reasons behind immigrant Chinese fathers’ low visibility in the fatherhood scholarship. While the demographic under-representation of immigrant Chinese families may be a possible reason, stereotypical assumptions about immigrant or ethnic minority fathers and particularly Chinese men may have contributed to the neglect of immigrant Chinese fathers. Specifically, these stereotypical assumptions include that immigrant Chinese fathers are well-integrated immigrants who successfully fulfill essential paternal responsibilities of co-residence and provision, as typically defined by the white mainstream fatherhood ideal. A focus on immigrant Chinese fathers would considerably enrich the fatherhood scholarship, especially when the fathers’ parenting experiences, beliefs, practices, and influences are examined through a critical ecological approach.
AB - Immigrant Chinese fathers remain severely under-researched despite their sizable and growing presence in host countries around the world and recent progress in research on immigrant and ethnic minority fathers. In this chapter, we review the major themes and methods used in existing studies involving immigrant Chinese fathers and explore reasons behind immigrant Chinese fathers’ low visibility in the fatherhood scholarship. While the demographic under-representation of immigrant Chinese families may be a possible reason, stereotypical assumptions about immigrant or ethnic minority fathers and particularly Chinese men may have contributed to the neglect of immigrant Chinese fathers. Specifically, these stereotypical assumptions include that immigrant Chinese fathers are well-integrated immigrants who successfully fulfill essential paternal responsibilities of co-residence and provision, as typically defined by the white mainstream fatherhood ideal. A focus on immigrant Chinese fathers would considerably enrich the fatherhood scholarship, especially when the fathers’ parenting experiences, beliefs, practices, and influences are examined through a critical ecological approach.
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-56452-0_14
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-56452-0_14
M3 - Chapter
SN - 9783030564506
T3 - Advances in Immigrant Family Research
SP - 259
EP - 281
BT - Asian families in Canada and the United States
A2 - Chuang, S.S.
A2 - Moodley, R.
A2 - Gielen, U.P.
A2 - Akram-Pall, S.
PB - Springer
CY - Cham
ER -