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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"fictive kin"”.
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Social factors related to the use and non-use of fictive kin terms
Fictive kinship is a relationship characterized by use of kin terms in addressing persons who are not genealogical relatives. The objective of this study was to clarify the discrepancy between a theoretical perspective of fictive kinship as a form of substitutive kinship in a complex, urban …
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Examining the Association Between Fictive Kin Care, Parental Attachment and Emotional Distress in College Students
… to parental support, many families leverage fictive kin caregivers to provide support. This is especially true in communities of racial and ethnic minorities. The present study investigated the association between fictive kin care, parental relationships, and emotional distress in college …
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Friends the family you choose (no matter what: An investigation of fictive kin relationships amoung young adults.
<p>Current research on fictive kin primarily focuses on the assignment of the fictive kin relationship, and does not focus on how acceptance of an individual as fictive kin is communicatively constructed. This research offers a look into how young adults communicate acceptance in their fictive kin …
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Friends the family you choose (no matter what: An investigation of fictive kin relationships amoung young adults.
<p>Current research on fictive kin primarily focuses on the assignment of the fictive kin relationship, and does not focus on how acceptance of an individual as fictive kin is communicatively constructed. This research offers a look into how young adults communicate acceptance in their fictive kin …
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Criminalized Houseless Women, Jesus, and the Praxis of Kinship: An Outsider’s Liberative Ethic
… of liberation. Street families and the praxis of kinship form the basis of a liberative ethic that critiques systemic causes of houselessness and provides a model of relatedness that works toward social justice. The project is based on eleven ethnographic interviews and life histories from women …
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Caregiving: An exploration of African American male caregiver roles in Texas
… sister, aunt, companion, brother, and fictive kin. Study participants self-identified as caregivers who provided formal or informal caregiver assistance to the elderly with activities of daily living and instrumental activities of daily living such as bathing, toileting, transportation, …
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Righting and Re-Writing The Blueprint: The creation of an Afrofuturistic television series and a self-sustaining television network to disrupt the misrepresentation of the Caribbean Family in British Television Drama
… of the Black Male, the destructive trauma of Fictive Kin, and the impact on future generations. The role of the predominately Black television Gatekeepers globally still confines Black television production to the stereotypical narrative originating from Hollywood media oligarchy …
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Behind closed doors – the lived experience of caring for patients in the perioperative setting
… into an unfamiliar, alien environment as fictive kin. Within this sense of caring and being cared for, the usual human freedoms are silently handed over, with unconsciousness severing any final freedoms. In response, staff become custodians of their kin and their body. This custodianship …
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African American Family, Culture, and Racial Identity in College Choice
… counselors, and peers influence their decision making. It also highlights the barriers these students may face due to lack of finances, social capital, information, and preparedness. Problem Statement: However, research often overlooks aspects of the African American college choice experience …
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The study of independent African migrant women in KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa) : their lives and work experiences
… Africa, financial and social support from their "fictive kin" system. As a "modus operandi" for Ghanaian migrant women hairdressers, country men/wo men are employed from Ghana and brought to South Africa to work in their hair salons. Since South Africans believe that Ghanaians are the best …
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Midwestern suburban elementary African American students’ perceptions of race and sense of belonging
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2024-03-01 without embargo terms