This paper employs a critical race theory (CRT) perspective to probe the experiences of skilled African migrants parenting Black children in Australia, a predominantly White country. Two key themes emerged from this study: (1) the need to explicitly teach children about race and racism and to foster positive racial identities and (2) the complexities of navigating tensions between ‘African’ and ‘Western’ cultural values. Participants demonstrated high levels of awareness of intercultural parenting approaches and a desire to blend the best aspects of African and Australian cultural values in their own parenting practice. A significant paradox was also apparent in the tension between parental desires to inculcate pride in African ancestry and culture, while simultaneously encouraging children to ‘curate’ their blackness to minimize experiences of racialization. Social workers in Australia often play a critical role in the lives of migrant families as they support them to negotiate transitions in parenting contexts. Although this paper only offers a perspective on the parenting experiences of skilled African migrants and how they creatively manage the tensions and change emerging from this process, we suggest that this understanding helps to expand knowledge on the complexity of parenting in multicultural, transcultural and intercultural contexts.

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在空白地区为黑人子女做父母：熟练的非洲移民反思他们在澳大利亚的父母养育经历

本文采用批判种族理论（CRT）的观点来探讨在澳大利亚（主要是白人国家）为黑人儿童做父母的熟练非洲移民的经历。这项研究提出了两个关键主题：（1）需要明确地向儿童传授种族和种族主义，并培养积极的种族认同，以及（2）应对“非洲”和“西方”文化价值观之间的紧张关系的复杂性。参加者表现出对跨文化育儿方式的高度了解，并渴望在自己的育儿实践中融合非洲和澳大利亚文化价值观的最佳方面。在父母对非洲祖先和文化的自豪感灌输的欲望之间的紧张关系中，还存在一个明显的悖论，同时鼓励孩子们“策划”他们的黑人生活，以最大程度地减少种族化的经历。澳大利亚的社会工作者经常在移民家庭的生活中发挥至关重要的作用，因为他们支持他们在育儿背景下谈判过渡。尽管本文仅提供了关于非洲熟练移民的育儿经历以及他们如何创造性地处理这一过程中出现的紧张关系和变化的观点，但我们建议这种理解有助于扩大对多元文化，跨文化和跨文化背景下育儿的复杂性的认识。