This book seeks to provide a deeper understanding of Muslim migrant fathers' experiences of home-school cooperation in Danish schools by identifying and contradicting a phenomenon of mistrusted masculinity. This term refers to a negative stereotype of Muslim migrant men that figures in political and media rhetoric where they are portrayed as controlling and patriarchal. Throughout the ethnography, migrant fathers confront this stereotype and express how they must navigate around this negative image in their struggle to be acknowledged as good fathers by their children's schools. Jørgensen uses Geertzian thick description of micro-interaction between fathers and Danish teachers to explore the complex interplay of often-untested assumptions, misunderstandings, and untoward effects.

Provides unique insight in the understudied area of migrant parents' relationships with schools, specifically fathers Introduces "mistrusted masculinity" to explain how gender intersects racialized and discriminatory practices in Denmark Gives voice to Muslim migrant fathers in a time of growing Euro-American white nationalism

Autorentext

Anne Hovgaard Jørgensen is Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Sociology and Social Work at Aalborg University, Denmark. She has recently contributed to the book Arab Masculinities (2022).

Inhalt

1. Introduction.- 2. Social Alertness.- 3. Fathers and School.- 4. Struggling along.- 5. The Constraining Jobs.- 6. Construction of the Dangerous Man.- 7. Mistrusted Masculinity.- 8. Concerned Fatherhood.- 9. Conclusion.