L'honneur perdu : les relations parents-enfants dans les familles d'immigrés algériens - article ; n°4 ; vol.41, pg 771-788

Annales. Économies, Sociétés, Civilisations - Année 1986 - Volume 41 - Numéro 4 - Pages 771-788
Lost Honor: Parent/Child Relationships in Algerian Immigrant Families. M. Hamoumou.
This sociological study utilizes projections of girls of Algerian origin, sollicited by Rorschach and Murray (TAT) psychological tests, in order to shed light on parent/child relationships in families from the Maghreb who have immigrated to France.
Beyond the particularities of the individual girls tested, the results point to a set of elements common to all of them. This article examines certain of these elements: the complexity of the daughter/parent relationships which is colored by violence and ambivalence; and the disturbance of this relationship due to decontextualization of the sense of honor—this demonstrates that conflict between generations is conflict between ways of generating the thinkable and the unthinkable.
18 pages
Source : Persée ; Ministère de la jeunesse, de l’éducation nationale et de la recherche, Direction de l’enseignement supérieur, Sous-direction des bibliothèques et de la documentation.