How adolescent children of African Jamaican immigrants living in Canada perceive and negotiate their roles within a matrifocal family

Family Process

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 441-458

  Navara, Geoffrey S ^a   Lollis, Susan ^b  

^a TRENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Family Acculturation; Parent Child Relationship; Socialization

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CANADA; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD PARENT RELATION; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; INTERVIEW; JAMAICA; MALE; MIGRATION; NEGRO; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL CLASS; STATISTICS; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; BLACK PERSON; MIGRANT; PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; YOUNG ADULT;

ACCULTURATION; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CANADA; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; CULTURE; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; JAMAICA; MALE; NEGOTIATING; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 68949120885     PISSN: 00147370     EISSN: 15455300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1545-5300.2009.01294.x     Document Type: Article

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