Complex and multi-layered socio-economic and cultural challenges face refugee parents resettling in a new country. The aim of this study was to describe refugee mothers and fathers’ experiences of parenthood by lifting up their own voices, illuminating the challenges they face and laying the basis for designing interventions to provide well-informed and culturally tailored support programmes for families in need.

The study combined narrative research with focus group discussions with 50 refugee mothers and fathers in Sweden. Data were analysed inductively using thematic analysis. The main theme identified: Navigating the changing landscape of parenthood, captured refugee parents’ experiences of navigating their parenthood through the new socio-political, cultural, and economic setting in Sweden.

The study results demonstrated how acculturation challenges undermined the role of parents, threatened the family cohesion and led to alienation of children from their parents. Despite the plethora of challenges faced by families, parents struggling to navigate two differing cultural paradigms, envisioned a path of dialogue and reconciliation between newcomers and the host society as a way to foster true integration and understanding between immigrant and native communities.

在新的国家定居的难民父母面临复杂和多层面的社会经济和文化挑战。这项研究的目的是通过表达自己的声音，阐明他们所面临的挑战并为设计干预措施以为需要帮助的家庭提供信息灵通和符合文化习惯的支持计划奠定基础，来描述难民父母的亲身经历。

这项研究结合了叙事研究和与瑞典的50名难民母亲和父亲进行的焦点小组讨论。使用主题分析对数据进行归纳分析。确定的主要主题是：在不断变化的育儿环境中航行，捕捉难民父母在瑞典新的社会政治，文化和经济环境中的育儿经验。

研究结果表明，文化适应挑战如何破坏父母的角色，威胁家庭凝聚力并导致儿童与父母疏远。尽管家庭面临着众多挑战，但父母仍在努力探索两种不同的文化范式，并设想了新移民与东道国社会之间的对话与和解之路，以促进移民与原住民社区之间的真正融合与理解。