Migrant Mothers' Creative Challenges to Racialized Citizenship

ISBN-13: 9781138542761 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 176 str.

Umut Erel; Tracey Reynolds

Opis

This book looks at the diverse ways in which migrant mothers contribute to making new modes of citizenship, in the process challenging racial hierarchies of citizenship. It explores different registers of creative interventions into racialized hierarchies of belonging, participation and citizenship, through participatory arts methods, social activism and politics, to enhance our understanding of contemporary multi-ethnic societies. This book was originally published as a special issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies.

Spis treści

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