fictive kin

fictive kin

(fik′tiv)
A group of individuals chosen as a surrogate family by a genetically unrelated person; an adopted family.
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Chapter four shows how a religious spirit animated the two schools and considers how they in turn nurtured different kinds of families, or solidarity among fictive kin. Chapter five linked themes from previous chapters and examines how the schools cultivated different kinds of men.
Black Boys Apart: Racial Uplift and Respectability in All-Male Public Schools
In fact, many state and county child welfare agencies are building on federal law to help children achieve legal permanency through guardianship with relatives and fictive kin. To better understand state policies guiding guardianship, this article presents trends in state statutes and administrative codes for guardianship across all 50 states.
Innovations in Using Guardianship to Preserve Families: A National Scan of Policy and Practice
Communities that Care and the Impact of Fictive Kin
When Will We Listen and Heed? Learning from Black Teachers to Understand the Urgent Need for Change
Though certainly not unique to African Americans, the significance of fictive kin in contributing to life satisfaction for African Americans is buttressed by research data (Taylor, Chatters, Hardison, & Riley, 2001).
Life Balance and Work Addiction Among African Americans
Fictive Kin legislation was passed and signed into law by my husband as well.
United States : Strengthening Resources for Kentucky Families
The "your black life matters" message would be the same, but rather than a lone voice exhorting a namesake nephew, The Fire This Time would be a chorus of fictive kin speaking to a generation of African Americans who were raised to identify beyond race, only to find themselves judged yet again by--and, in recent high-profile cases, executed because of--the color of their skin.
Getting in formation: story in the service of social justice
More importantly, the intimacy generated by living together may create strong emotional bonds that cause fictive kin to act like kin, or more extended kin to act like adult children.
Negotiating eldercare in Akuapem, Ghana: care-scripts and the role of non-kin
caring and childrearing creates a woman-centered "fictive kin"
"I worry about my community": African American women utilizing communal notions of citizenship in the social studies classroom
It could be said that fictive kin address is very much part of Kelabit custom.
Kinship and resource access in contemporary Kelabit Society
As the book well shows, making land productive required labor, the labor of both men and women, labor that was mostly organized through families with three dimensions, the male-female partnership among adults of prime working age, their intergenerational relationships with their elders and their children, and the wider networks provided extended families of both biological and fictive kin. Distinct microclimates allowed different kinds of products, and each product required specific forms of labor: cowboys and shepherds, seasonal harvesters, people to plow, plant, weed, and process, people to make handicrafts or work in packing sheds.
Antonio Escobar Ohmstede and Matthew Butler (eds.), Mexico in Transition: New Perspectives on Mexican Agrarian History, Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries/Mexico y sus transiciones: reconsideraciones sobre la historia agraria mexicana, siglos XIX y XX (Mexico City: CIESAS/LLILAS, 2013
Analytically separating Black southerners from their migrating cousins, fictive kin, and white counterparts, Robinson demonstrates how place intersects with race, class, gender, and regional identities and differences.
When Zandria Robinson returned home to interview African Americans in Memphis
These caring commitments may cross the boundaries of blood, marriage, residence, culture, and country This can manifest itself in terms of caring for fictive kin (Reynolds 2006).
Social media as a tool for transnational caregiving within the Caribbean diaspora/Las redes sociales como herramienta para la atencion sanitaria transnacional entre la diaspora Caribena/Les medias sociaux comme un outil de soins transnationaux dans la diaspora Caribeene
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