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Intercultural Parenting and Relationships

Challenges and Rewards

Palgrave Macmillan

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  • Provides a balanced overview of the challenges as well as the strengths and resiliencies of intercultural parents

  • Explores the meaning-making process of everyday interactions of intercultural parents

  • Focuses on the “what is” rather than “what should be” of parents’ own experiences of cultural differences

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
  2. Introduction

    • Dharam Bhugun
    Pages 1-32
  3. Cultures Coming Together

    • Dharam Bhugun
    Pages 47-129
  4. Implications for Theory, Practice and Policy

    • Dharam Bhugun
    Pages 191-208
  5. Back Matter

    Pages 209-241

About this book

This book provides understandings of how intercultural, -racial, -ethnic, -national, and -faith couples and parents in Australia bring up their children and manage their relationships. Which challenges and benefits do they encounter, and which strategies do they use to negotiate their differences and belongingness? In portraying the lived experiences of intercultural couples and parents, Bhugun considers contextual and external factors such as individual and personality traits, the environment, gender and power, religion, socio-economic status, extended family, friends, and diasporic communities. Moving the reader from beyond negative stereotypes to a more nuanced representation of both the challenges and benefits of the phenomenon, Intercultural Parenting and Relationships provides intimate testimonies and offers innovations in theory and practice.

Scholars, practitioners, students, intercultural couples, parents, families and the wider community will benefit from the rich insights into the challenges and successes of intercultural relationships and parenting presented in this book.


Authors and Affiliations

  • Southern Cross University, Gold Coast, Australia

    Dharam Bhugun

About the author

Dharam Bhugun is a Psycho-Social Therapist at Realistic Counselling, Queensland, Australia and Guest Lecturer, Southern Cross University, Gold Coast, Australia. 

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Intercultural Parenting and Relationships

  • Book Subtitle: Challenges and Rewards

  • Authors: Dharam Bhugun

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-14060-1

  • 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 2019

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-14059-5Published: 22 May 2019

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-14060-1Published: 10 May 2019

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIX, 241

  • Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Family, Psychotherapy and Counseling, Ethnicity Studies

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eBook USD 64.99
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Hardcover Book USD 84.99
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  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
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