Children's Centres as spaces of interethnic encounter in North East England

Parks, Judith

doi:10.1080/14649365.2015.1040057

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“…Sure Start Children’s centers in the UK can help build social capital among parents including indigenous and new migrants. However, language of delivery was considered a potential barrier to the program and African refugees were not represented (Parks, 2015). As these studies reveal, interventions are primarily education focused and provided by professionals not peers working in partnership with professionals.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

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Supporting refugee parents of young children: “knowing you’re not alone”

Stewart

Spitzer

Kushner

et al. 2018

Intl J of Migration, H and SC

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to develop and test an accessible and culturally appropriate social support intervention designed to meet the support needs and preferences identified by African refugee parents of young children. Design/methodology/approach The study was built on the research team’s preceding study assessing social support needs and intervention preferences of Sudanese and Zimbabwean refugee parents of young children. Face-to-face support groups led by peer and professional mentors were conducted bi-weekly over seven months. Qualitative data collection methods were employed through group and individual interviews. Findings In total, 85 refugee parents (48 Sudanese, 37 Zimbabwean; 47 male, 38 female) in two Canadian provinces participated in the social support intervention. Results demonstrated that this intervention increased participants’ social support by: providing information, enhancing spousal relationships, and expanding engagement with their ethnic community. This pilot intervention decreased refugee new parents’ loneliness and isolation, enhanced coping, improved their capacity to attain education and employment, and increased their parenting competence. Practical implications Peer mentors who were refugee parents of young children were key to facilitating the support intervention and to enhancing confidence of group members to raise their children in Canada. They acted as role models as they had faced similar challenges. Success of this intervention can also be attributed to its flexibility and participant-centered focus. Originality/value This is the first reported study to design and test the impacts of support interventions for African refugee parents of young children.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Supporting refugee parents of young children: “knowing you’re not alone”

Stewart

Spitzer

Kushner

et al. 2018

Intl J of Migration, H and SC

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“…In some cases these institutions offer opportunities for encounters that would otherwise be less available in more divided neighbourhoods (Amin ). In Parks’ () study of pre‐school children's centres in North East England, new migrant parents saw value in these institutions as sites for improving their language skills, but also for facilitating more predictable encounters with the local community. In exploring multicultural relations in a parents’ group and school playground in Birmingham, UK, Wilson ( ) discovered parents could enforce separation through establishing well‐worn habits and routines such as standing next to, or speaking with, the same people.…”

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Purging the nation: race, conviviality and embodied encounters in the lives of British Bangladeshi Muslim young women

Nayak

2017

Trans Inst British Geog

101

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This paper critically engages with debates on race, conviviality and the geography of encounters. Where much of this work is undertaken in multicultural places, far less is known about the doing and undoing of conviviality in mainly white localities. The study further contributes to this work by offering a richly embodied account of racism and belonging based on the biographical testimonies of British Bangladeshi Muslim young women. Through these accounts, I identify topographies of power, social inequality and forms of exclusion that disrupt the melody of multicultural conviviality. I demonstrate the visceral aspects of race as it is summoned to life in live encounters, where it is lived on the body, bleeds into the locality and congeals around imaginary ideas of the nation state. I argue that antagonistic encounters that serve to mark out British Bangladeshi Muslims as 'Other' perform a bigger role: purging the nation, detoxifying it from encroaching multicultural intimacies and stabilising it as white. Despite this ritual cleansing I demonstrate how respondents are implicated in new forms of civic belonging, laying claim to nationhood, locality and rights to the city that subvert and hollow out the fantasy of a white nation.

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“…Scholars working in this area have also paid considerable attention to the spaces of encounter, to consider how encounters shape space but are also shaped by it (Leitner, 2012). This includes spaces of work and education (Ellis et al, 2004; Wilson, 2013a); food and consumption (Laurier and Philo, 2006; Vertovec, 2015); public transport (Wilson, 2011); streets and plazas (Pikner, 2016); and spaces of leisure and community (Neal et al, 2015; Parks, 2015), to name just some of the sites that have drawn attention.…”

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On geography and encounter

Wilson

2016

Progress in Human Geography

373

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The notion of encounter has been used widely within work on urban diversity and socio-cultural difference, yet it remains under-theorized. This paper argues that ‘encounter’ is a conceptually charged construct that is worthy of sustained and critical attention. Drawing on a wide range of geographical interests, including animal geographies, urban diversity, postcolonialism, mobile geographies, and the more-than-human, it offers the first examination of how ‘encounter’ has been deployed across the discipline. By further tracing the historical links between geography and encounter, the paper contends that encounters are distinct genres of contact, and demonstrates why this matters for geographical thought, and how we think about bodies, borders, and difference.

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Children's Centres as spaces of interethnic encounter in North East England

Cited by 9 publications

References 25 publications

Supporting refugee parents of young children: “knowing you’re not alone”

Supporting refugee parents of young children: “knowing you’re not alone”

Purging the nation: race, conviviality and embodied encounters in the lives of British Bangladeshi Muslim young women

On geography and encounter

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