Family display, family type, or community? Limitations in the application of a concept

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ID13009308
AuthorsJ Walsh (0000-0003-0705-9550, University of Sheffield, corresponding author), Sally Mcnamee (Western University), Julie Seymour (0000-0002-9384-2551, Hull York Medical School)
Year2019
Volume9
Issue3
Pages345-360
Publication date2019-09-04
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueFamilies Relationships and Societies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2046-7435 • E-ISSN: 2046-7443
PublisherPolicy Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1332/204674319x15647592551202
OpenAlexW2971507913
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited14

In this paper we develop the concept of family display by responding to David Morgan’s suggestion that researchers should consider whether ‘family displays’ are used to convey a ‘type’ of Family. We do so by applying the concept to the accounts of migrant family children living in an English city, and those of adults that grew-up in Mennonite communities in Mexico and Canada. Analysis uniquely shows that migrant family children do display a type of ‘Family’, and that this is influenced by familial constructs privileged by intended audiences. We contribute further by arguing that whilst some families do display core values attached to Family ‘types’, this is not the case in the example of the Mennonite community and researchers should be cognisant of applying this concept to all contexts. This is because the priority for display may not be the presentation of legitimate Family, but other features of collective identity

Aesthetics · Art · Epistemology · Extended family · Family resemblance · Family studies · Genealogy · Identity (music · Nuclear family · Presentation (obstetrics · Sociology · Anthropology · Architecture, Design, and Social History · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Geographies of human-animal interactions · History · Medicine · Psychology · Social Psychology

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