Meaning Making for Immigrant Latino Fathers in Dynamic Family Contexts

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dc.contributor.advisorRoy, Kevinen_US
dc.contributor.authorOspina, Estefaniaen_US
dc.contributor.departmentFamily Studiesen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2014-12-04T06:31:23Z
dc.date.available2014-12-04T06:31:23Z
dc.date.issued2014en_US
dc.description.abstractExisting research on fathers has historically focused on fatherhood involvement with children as a cornerstone of paternity. These studies have primarily used White-male fathers as the exemplary demographic (Campos, 2008). However, less has been said about immigrant Latino father's parenting and even less about their process of fatherhood meaning making. The present study used a qualitative approach to better understand immigrant Latino men's accounts of their fathering in dynamic contexts. The data used consisted of transcribed life history interviews conducted with 19 immigrant Latino fathers who were recruited from a HEAD START program and lived in neighborhoods of Chicago, Illinois. In using this method, insights of their experiences and perspectives on fathering were discerned into three chapters. The findings suggest that the fatherhood meaning making for this sample was fluid and influenced by relationships and context. The analysis provides four major contributions to Latino fatherhood literature: immigrant Latino fathers exemplify a different kind of machismo that is multidimensional; protection was important to fathers and embedded in context; fathers were active agents that conveyed familismo through practicing and teaching family values; and the cultural value of familismo looks into the future and enriches efforts to create a family legacy.en_US
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/M2V89K
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/16006
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledIndividual & family studiesen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledSociologyen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledLatin American studiesen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledFamily contextsen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledImmigranten_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledInterviewsen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledLatino fathersen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledMeaning makingen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledMexican Americanen_US
dc.titleMeaning Making for Immigrant Latino Fathers in Dynamic Family Contextsen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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