1st Edition

Migrant Mothers' Creative Challenges to Racialized Citizenship

Edited By Umut Erel, Tracey Reynolds Copyright 2019
186 Pages
by Routledge

186 Pages
by Routledge

186 Pages
by Routledge

How do racialized migrant mothers contest hegemonic racialized formations of citizenship? Bringing together leading scholars from international and multi-disciplinary perspectives, this book shows how migrant mothers realise and problematise their role in bringing up future citizens in modern societies, increasingly characterised by racial, ethnic, religious, cultural and social diversity. The... Read more

Introduction: migrant mothers challenging racialized citizenship  1. Intimate attachments and migrant deportability: lessons from undocumented mothers seeking benefits for citizen children  2. Caring subjects: migrant women and the third sector in England and Scotland  3. Migrant mothers’ creative interventions into racialized citizenship  4. Walking, well-being and community: racialized mothers building cultural citizenship using participatory arts and participatory action research  5. Migrant mothers, home and emotional capital – hidden citizenship practices  6. Cross-border citizenship: mothering beyond the boundaries of consanguinity and nationality  7. Polish migrant mothers accommodating London: practising transcultural citizenship  8. Racialized citizenship, respectability and mothering among Caribbean mothers in Britain

Biography

Umut Erel is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the Open University, UK. Her research interests are in gender, migration, and racism, and how these articulate with citizenship. She is also interested in participatory, collaborative and creative methods for research and engagement.



Tracey Reynolds is Professor of Social Sciences at the University of Greenwich, UK. She has conducted extensive empirical research in the UK across a range of social issues including black minority ethnic and migrant families living in disadvantaged communities.