Mothering as a citizenship practice: an intersectional analysis of ‘carework’ and ‘culturework’ in non-normative mother–child identities

Longman, Chia; Graeve, Katrien De; Brouckaert, Tine

doi:10.1080/13621025.2013.791540

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“…Homework refers to set of activities distinct from (though inclusive of) the everyday tasks of domestic labour and housework, to describe the architectural, aesthetic, and moral production of a particular kind of home. Homework includes a set of practices analogous to ‘kinwork’ (Stack and Burton 1993), ‘bodywork’ (Comaroff and Comaroff 1992:41), ‘emotion work’ (Erickson 1993) or ‘culturework’ (Longman et al 2013; De Graeve 2013). Like those analytical tools, ‘homework’ is not an emic term but rather our own description of the activities interlocutors engage in as they creatively align their homes with their understanding of what is expected.…”

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‘Homework’ and transnational adoption screening in Spain: the co‐production of home and family

Leinaweaver

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Frekko

2017

Royal Anthropological Inst

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We use the transnational adoption screening process as a lens for examining the co‐production of the home and the family in Spain. We propose the term ‘homework’ to describe the efforts of adoption applicants to perform an appropriate home and thus receive approval to adopt. The transnational adoption screening process is a key site of state‐individual interaction for communicating a set of classed, gendered norms. Through that process, participants ratify the authority of professionals to distinguish between adequate and inadequate ways to live. As such, our analysis demonstrates how moral authority is ascribed to material objects, as we document the strong link between ‘appropriate’ housing and growing families as an explanatory factor for the demographic effects of economic crises.

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‘Homework’ and transnational adoption screening in Spain: the co‐production of home and family

Leinaweaver

Marre

Frekko

2017

Royal Anthropological Inst

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“…Migrant mothers provide children with the resources to negotiate their relationship with ethnicity, identity and sense of belonging in the destination countries (Erel 2009;Gedalof 2009). These involve a form of citizenship but, as Longman et al (2013) show, this not only involves reproduction but also a degree of creativity. Drawing on examples of undocumented migrant women and their care of children they argue that care work requires 'culture work', dropping some aspects of their traditions, retaining others and transforming them to new contexts in order to foster children's ability to grow up in destination societies.…”

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Gendered Migrations and Global Social Reproduction

2015

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“…Increasingly, critical theorisations of care work, intimacy and citizenship from feminist, multicultural and global perspectives have highlighted several ways to bridge the gaps between the theories and practices of care, sexuality, intimacy, migration and social inclusion, providing a broader, more grounded, intersectional understanding of citizenship (Epstein and Carrillo, 2014;Fudge, 2014;Kershaw, 2010;Longman et al, 2013;Sevenhuijsen, 1998;Yuval-Davis, 2007). For example, Longman et al's comparative, intersectional analysis of 'mothering' in non-conventional mother-child relationships (2013) shows how care work and its micro-based, affective potential to shape politics of inclusion and recognition becomes a form of 'citizenship practice' which changes hegemonic understandings of belonging and entitlement.…”

Section: Visions From the Borders: Positive Marginality Citizenship mentioning

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Unconventional relationships, positive marginalities and citizenship

Pratesi

2018

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Long distance relationships and caring at a distance may be connected with emotional and psychological exhaustion but also gratification, reward and empowerment; above all, they possess important implications in terms of social justice, equality and citizenship. The expression ‘world families’ (Beck and Beck-Gernsheim, 2014) includes a heterogeneous and tension-filled set of social actors who have in common the potential to bridge traditional distinctions between public and private, centre and periphery, national and international, able-bodied and physically/cognitively impaired, heterosexual and homosexual, bypassing dichotomous ideas of inclusion/exclusion which typically characterise the concept of citizenship. These families represent a group of very different social actors, including couples of mixed cultures and ethnicities, low-paid migrant workers, skilled migrant workers, asylum seekers, refugees, distant families, etc. who challenge our culturally homogenous understanding of family and society and are defined therefore as ‘pioneers of cosmopolitanism’ and cultural diversity. Drawing on recent work on families, relationships, intimacies and caring for distant others and contextualising it within the specific and still unexplored context of Living Apart Together (LAT) same-sex couples, this article examines the moral, sociological and institutional geographies of these less visible chains of care and affection and their unequally entitled rights and visibility. The literature review is combined with auto-ethnographic work analysing and discussing the case of a married, same-sex, transnational, Living Apart Together (LAT) couple. This article suggests that by looking at what happens at the level of emotion-based, micro-situated interactions we can get some crucial insights into the changing nature of families, intimacies and relationships and their multiple implications in terms of social inclusion, entitlement to rights/citizenship and social change. It is a form of relational, emotion-based and micro-situated social inclusion and entitlement to rights/citizenship which is occurring, on a daily basis, in the interstices of people’s interactions even when such change still meets several obstacles at the structural, political and institutional level.

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Mothering as a citizenship practice: an intersectional analysis of ‘carework’ and ‘culturework’ in non-normative mother–child identities

Cited by 41 publications

References 33 publications

‘Homework’ and transnational adoption screening in Spain: the co‐production of home and family

‘Homework’ and transnational adoption screening in Spain: the co‐production of home and family

Gendered Migrations and Global Social Reproduction

Unconventional relationships, positive marginalities and citizenship

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