The migrant maternal : "birthing" new lives abroad / edited by Anna Kuroczycka Schultes and Helen Vallianatos.

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English
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  • Bradford, Ontario : Demeter Press, [2016]
  • ©2016
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xi, 269 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm

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    "This edited volume explores how and why immigrant/refugee mothers' experiences differ due to the challenges posed by the migration process but also what commonalities underline immigrant/refugee mothers' lived experiences. This book will add to the field of women's studies the much-needed discussion of how immigrant and refugee mothers' lives are dependent on cultural, environmental and socio-economic circumstances. The collection offers multiple perspectives on migrant mothering by including ethnographic and theoretical submissions along with mothers' personal narratives and literary analyses from diverse locales: New Zealand, Japan, Canada, The United States, Turkey, Italy and the Netherlands among others. The first section of the volume focuses on mothers' roles in the family institution and the pressures and responsibilities they face in "creating" and "reproducing" families physically and socially. The second section shifts its attention to children and highlights mothers' continued roles in the development of their children abroad, along with the gendered/generational dynamics in the settlement process and the resultant effects on motherhood responsibilities. In all chapters, readers will find how women negotiate their traditional roles in a new sociocultural milieu, and how mothering processes are critical in creating connections with traditions and homelands."-- Provided by publisher.
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    Contents
    • Reproducing punjabiyat : family rhetoric and birth control among Indian migrant women in Italy / Sara Bonfanti
    • From mama Africa to Papatūānuku : the experiences of a group of African immigrant and refugee-background mothers living in Auckland, Aotearoa-New Zealand / Helene Connor, Irene Ayallo, and Sue Elliott
    • Mother tongue as the language of mothering and homing practice in Betty Quan's Mother tongue and Hiromi Goto's Chorus of mushrooms : survival strategies and identity construction of migrant and refugee mothers / Eglė Kačkutė
    • Perinatal care for immigrants in the Netherlands : a personal account / Theano Lianidou
    • Motherhood and unemployment : immigrant women's experiences in Toronto / Leslie Nichols
    • Mothers at the margins of health : Syrian mothers in Istanbul / Nurcan Ozgur Baklacioglu
    • Changing places, changing bodies : reproducing families through food / Helen Vallianatos
    • An immigrant mother's "revolt against silence" in Edwidge Danticat's Brother, I'm dying / Justine Dymond
    • Isolation and negotiation : a case study of Chinese working-class immigrant women's mothering experiences / Yu-Ling Hsiao
    • Foreign mothers, native children : the impact of language on cultural identity among Polish Americans in Chicago / Anna Kuroczycka Schultes
    • Mothering duties come first : professional immigrant Filipinas' career reconstitution dilemmas / Cirila P. Limpangog
    • The extraordinariness of ordinary immigrant mothers in Jhumpa Lahiri's writings / Rehnuma Sazzad
    • Attaining a balance between showing sensitivity to local norms and upholding the values of the country of origin : the case of a western mother in Japan / Meredith Stephens
    • Intercultural upbringing : the benefits of maintaining home language and culture when raising migrant children / Agata Strzelecka-Misonne.
    ISBN
    • 9781772580808 ((paperback))
    • 1772580805 ((paperback))
    LCCN
    2016497877
    OCLC
    952447866
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