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Intergenerational Relationships

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This chapter discusses the intergenerational relationships in Chinese immigrant families. To understand Chinese immigrant parents’ encounter with Canadian schooling, it is important to first understand the interaction between the parents and their children in the family. I discuss the Chinese parenting style, and the challenges in parenting practice when the mothers’ expectations, and cultural habits cannot be understood or accepted by their children as they absorbed new ideas, and values from the school, that were different from the mothers’ long-held beliefs. The language factor plays a significant role in parent-child relations. By tracing the mothers’ immigration journey, and their gradual change in parenting practice, I situate the mothers’ stories in a certain temporal space, where the mothers were trying to get adjusted to their new environment.

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Chi, X. (2020). Intergenerational Relationships. In: Cross-Cultural Experiences of Chinese Immigrant Mothers in Canada. Intercultural Reciprocal Learning in Chinese and Western Education. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46977-1_4

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