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The issue of coping with cultural transition, as in the case of immigration, has been the focus of extensive investigation in many domains. There is some diversity among scholars as to the relationship between change, stress, risk and well‐being. Children, in particular, are regarded at risk since they experience parental stress and are exposed to two sometimes conflicting socializing systems. Consequently, parental modes of coping with "acculturation stress" are considered major factors in predicting immigrant children's well‐being.This article challenges existing views of a linear relation between parental coping and child well‐being, suggesting that there is a great complexity and many variables that affect both parental coping strategies related to immigration and the definition of risk.We suggest that child development is affected by parental values and ideologies which form the "Adaptive Adult" image of the culture in which the children are raised. Immigrant parents confronted with a foreign Adaptive Adult image held by the socializing agents of the host culture may adopt one of the several different copying styles. The article describes three most common coping styles labelled by metaphores from the animal world: the traditional "uni‐cultural" style which promotes conservation is represented by the Kangaroo strategy; the "culturally‐disoriented" style which calls for rapid assimilation of children is represented by the Cuckoo metaphor; and the "bi‐cultural" style, based on a meditative approach, is illustrated by the Chameleon's ability to change its colour to blend in with the environment.Representatives of four professional sectors who are in daily contact with immigrant families, including educators, social workers, educational psychologists and paediatricians, were presented with three typical coping strategies and were asked to express their opinions regarding the adaptive and risk values of each coping style.By applying a qualitative research approach, results indicate that there are variations in the way the various stakeholders (parents and socializing agents) perceive basic concepts such as adaptation, risk and well‐being. Consequently, their evaluations of the different parental coping styles vary, suggesting that it is all "in the mind of the beholder".

Chapter 1. Introduction: The Israeli Stage for Context-Informed Perspective on Child Risk and Protection (Dorit Roer-Strier, Yochay Nadan) -- Chapter 2. The Evolving Concept of Risk and Israel's Child Policy (Nofar Mazursky, Asher Ben-Arieh) -- Chapter 3. Context-Informed Research on Child Risk and Protection: Principles and Challenges (Ibtisam Marey-Sarwan, Natalie Ulitsa) -- Chapter 4. Risk Complexity—Culture and Identity in Migration: The Case of Ethiopian Jews (Michal Gatenio-Kalush, Shelly Engdau-Vanda, and Naomi Shmuel) -- Chapter 5. Seeing Eye to Eye? Perception of Risk and Protection of Social Workers and Parents Regarding Children of Ethiopian Origin (Shelly Engdau-Vanda, Michal Gatenio-Kalush, and Bat-Hen Karni) -- Chapter 6. Parental and Professional Perspectives of Child Risk and Protection in Israel's Ultra-Orthodox Community (Rivka Keesing, Netanel Gemara, and Mani Pollak) -- Chapter 7. Many Children, Many Risks? Listening to the Voices of Families with Many Children from the Ultra-Orthodox (Haredi) Community in Israel (Hannah Bartl, Heidi Keller, Natali Zohar, and Nira Wahle) -- Chapter 8. Perceptions of Risk and Protection among French Immigrant Mothers in Israel (Noémie Bloomberg, Yan Serdtse, and Dorit Roer-Strier) -- Chapter 9. Parental and Professional Perspectives of Child Risk and Protection in Unrecognized Bedouin Villages in the Naqab: An Intersectionality-Informed Approach (Ibtisam Marey-Sarwan and Galit Meir) -- Chapter 10. Child Risk and Protection: Perceptions of One-and-a-Half Generation Immigrant Parents from the Former Soviet Union and Israeli Social Workers (Natalie Ulitsa, Lital Yona, Anna Gogonsky, and Dorit Roer-Strier) -- Chapter 11. Challenging Social Workers' Envisioned Definitions of Child Neglect: Perspectives of Mothers Living in an Impoverished Neighborhood (Lital Yona) -- Chapter 12. "Permanent Temporariness:" Eritrean Refugees and Social Workers' Perceptions of Israeli Policies and Their Implications for Family Well-Being (Lior Birger) -- Chapter 13. Children's Rights, Protection and Access to Justice: The Case of Palestinian Children in East Jerusalem (Bella Kovner).-Chapter 14. Young Children's Perspectives of Risk and Protection (Yael Ponizovsky-Bergelson, Yael Dayan, Ibtisam Marey-Sarwan, Dorit Roer-Strier, and Nira Wahle) -- Chapter 15. Disclosing Sexual Abuse in Religious Communities in Israel: Lessons Learned by the Research Group on Child Sexual Abuse (Dafna Tener, Amitai Marmor, Efrat Lusky Weisrose, Aya Almog-Zaken, Tsofnat Melamed Filtser, and Shosh Turjeman) -- Chapter 16. An Ultra-Orthodox Researcher: Oxymoron or Opportunity? A Typology of Appearances of Conflicting Identities of an Insider Researcher (Netanel Gemara) -- Chapter 17. A Context-Informed Approach to the Study of Child Risk and Protection: Lessons Learned and Future Directions (Yochay Nadan and Dorit Roer-Strier).

AbstractThis article discusses context‐informed conceptualization in the study of children's risk and protection. It begins by defining this perspective, challenging the universalistic approach and the view of cultures as uniform, monolithic and static and acknowledging hybridity, complexity, and the dynamics of change and power relations. In the second part of the article, we exemplify three contexts (religion and spirituality, racism and exclusion, political conflict and violence) that emerged from our large‐scale qualitative research project in Israel exploring perceptions of child risk and protection in different contexts. In the third part of the article, we rethink the ontological nature of the categories of child "risk" and "protection." We outline and deconstruct three prevalent myths identified in the risk discourse, discuss the stance of the observer and the issue of power, the discrepancies and value mismatch between parents and professionals, and the concept of complexity in the risk discourse.

Social services in multicultural societies often assist families in cultural transitions. These processes are seen as carrying potential risks and threats for families and children. Studies primarily examine immigration as a complex transition that affects the stability and continuity of family roles. This study focuses on the impact of immigration on the role of fathers. Moving away both from the risk theory of immigration and the deficit theory of fatherhood, this study focuses rather on the systemic barriers and obstacles facing immigrant fathers in their new country and the positive opportunities this change represents for them and their families. The study examines the impact of immigration on fatherhood by comparing Ethiopian and former Soviet Union Israeli immigrant fathers' perceptions of fatherhood in the midst of cultural change.

This article examines the qualitative interview as a site for meetings between interviewers and interviewees from groups that are in conflict. It shows how interviewees who initially resisted participation and voiced what one called the 'official story' of her group moved beyond this position enabling the encounter to become a meaningful experience for both parties. This critical case analysis is based on three interviews from three different studies and follow-up interviews with interviewers and interviewees. The paper describes six phases of the encounters found in all the interviews (on guard, the 'official story', expert position, confrontation, looking for common grounds, and beyond the 'official story') and explores the conditions that brought about bidirectional communication and intimacy. The findings are discussed in light of current debates around reflexivity, positionality, and power relations in qualitative interviewing. The article highlights the importance of the historical and political contexts.

This paper is based on a study of Palestinian intermarried families (Palestinian men married to American and European women) residing in Palestinian cities of the West Bank. Specifically, it addresses the interface of cultural adaptation and the socialization of children ("children socialization") in the midst of political conflict. Cultural adaptation strategies were typified by the extent to which each spouse embraces the partner's culture, while children socialization patterns were typified according to dominant cultural setting chosen by the family. The findings show that parental choices of cultural adaptation were reflected in the ways they chose to socialize their children. Conflicts over children socialization occurred only when the parents opted for opposing cultural adaptation styles. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict was found to influence parents' cultural adaptation and children socialization, deepening existing conflicts and cultural differences within the family.

Qualitative researchers use the term triangulation to describe the use of multiple strategies to study the same phenomenon. Although it is endorsed in social work research textbooks and contested in the literature, qualitative social work researchers are left on their own to determine how to 'do' triangulation. This article discusses triangulation, including recent debates around the concept. It describes two methods of data triangulation and illustrates them with examples from the study of mothers and daughters coping with a daughter's religious intensification. From the first method, a comparative analysis of mother-daughter dyads, the authors identify and provide examples of five types of triangulated data: (1) same story, same meaning; (2) same story, different interpretations; (3) missing pieces; (4) unique information; and (5) illuminating. The second method, triangulation within groups and between groups, makes visible perspectives that are common and distinct to mothers and daughters as members of different cultural groups. The article discusses the advantages of systematic data triangulation for qualitative research and draws implications for social work research and practice.

We examine the effects of an adult member's religious difference and geographic distance on intergenerational family continuity, using the case example of American Jewish mothers with daughters who became Orthodox and moved to Israel. Using qualitative data from a focus group with 6 women who became Orthodox and moved to Israel and separate interviews with 14 Israeli American daughters and their 14 respective American mothers, we found that initially mothers were negative about their daughters' religiosity but positive about their moves to Israel. Over time, mothers became more positive or ambivalent about their daughters' religiosity but more negative or ambivalent about their immigration. The religious difference and distance helped daughters separate and individuate. Despite feelings of loss, mothers maintained intergenerational family continuity.