Titlebook: British Chinese Families; Parenting, Relations Carmen Lau-Clayton Book 2014 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited

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Chinese Migration Patterns,and complex history of Chinese migration helps to overshadow the lay prejudicial view of Chinese people as being part of a homogenised and uniform group. Furthermore, by focusing on the concepts of diaspora, hybridity and translocalism, cultural identity is argued to be fluid, malleable and multiple

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Themes within Current Research,he UK’s longest standing minority groups, little is known about British Chinese people as they rarely attract attention from politicians or researchers (Baxter and Raw 2002). With available research and literature, the Chinese in the UK are generally regarded as a non-troublesome, high-achieving gro

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Methods of Enquiry,ions of Chinese individuals as being collectivist and conformist, in accordance with traditional values and practices. Cultural practices (either explicit or implicit) are said to affect and guide individuals’ belief systems, behaviour and ways of interacting with others. From Chapters 2 and 3, howe

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Contemporary British Chinese Parenting, British Chinese families. Such explanations are misleading, as individuals are not solely bound by cultural traditions; rather, they are free to form their own identities and values in the modern world. The agency of individuals to construct their own cultural identities — either through the notion

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Agency and Action of British Chinese Children, rights of children. In Western cultures, the concept of individualism is generally prioritised, where independence, individual achievement, personal growth and the right of the individual is emphasised. The role of parents, then, is to help children acquire self-sufficiency, self-direction and deci

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Conclusions, the nature of such households, the argument of this book was for a more holistic exploration of UK Chinese families. In exploring the complex and varied lives of contemporary British Chinese parents and children, 12 British Chinese families, based in the North of England, were invited to take part

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