Browsing by Subject "suomenvietnamilainen"

When cultures meet, people have to adapt to changes. These changes are long-term and affect one´s identity, values, behaviours, social relationships and the mental heath. In the process of the adaptation, the immigrant can choose different strategies: integration, assimi-lation, separation and marginalisation. The purpose of this study is to find out, describe and analyse the views of three Vietnamese parents living in Finland about how to raise their children into the Finnish society. John Berry´s theory of acculturation is used in this study. The Vietnamese people in Finland have been studied quite a lot, but there is not much re-search on their parenting in Finland. This is a qualitative study where three Vietnamese parents living in the capital region took part. The informants came to Finland at the adult age and had lived for 8–19 years in the country. They had children at school age. Theme interview method was used while collect-ing data. The informants were interviewed and taped at the informants´ home in Vietnamese language. The data was transcribed and analysed in its Vietnamese format by using theo-retically-driven content analysis. The results and the data quotations were written and trans-lated into Finnish language. The parents who participated in this study raised their children to be members of the Finnish society and they maintained their mother tongue and Vietnamese values e.g. respecting and obeying parents and school success. There was an obvious difference while raising a girl and a boy and using physical discipline in the families. Also some Finnish values were respected. They were for example to become independent and how to express oneself. The more a Vietnamese parent has been in touch with the Finnish culture, the more changes have taken place in his or her views on raising children in Finland. The awareness of how the immigrant parents think about raising children in acculturation would contribute to the communication between cultures in school work and in collaboration with parents.