“Other Mothers,” Migration, and a Transnational Nurturing Nexus

Bloch, Alexia

doi:10.1086/692441

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“…Both women emphasize the support and affection that institutional care cannot provide, and this life-felt experience of nurturing builds on their socialist and post-socialist family experiences (Bloch 2017). Both women emphasize the support and affection that institutional care cannot provide, and this life-felt experience of nurturing builds on their socialist and post-socialist family experiences (Bloch 2017).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Some anthropologists of post-socialism have criticized research that hierarchically measures post-socialist transformation against the Western norm (Bloch 2017;Chari and Verdery 2009;Hann 2002;Jansen 2015;Reid 2014;Yurchak 2006). Some anthropologists of post-socialism have criticized research that hierarchically measures post-socialist transformation against the Western norm (Bloch 2017;Chari and Verdery 2009;Hann 2002;Jansen 2015;Reid 2014;Yurchak 2006).…”

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“…Extended families help to deal with the uncertainties of a capitalist economy and unemployment (Bloch 2017;Robila 2004;Stanisz 2013). Extended families help to deal with the uncertainties of a capitalist economy and unemployment (Bloch 2017;Robila 2004;Stanisz 2013).…”

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“…'He is mine', she told me, evoking her role as an 'othermother' in the transnational family (Bloch 2017), 'I was practically like a mother to him. Aleksandra's mother, like Vesta, became a transnationally mobile grandmother who commuted between Poland and Finland to take care of her grandson while Aleksandra attended courses, studied Finnish and worked.…”

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“…On the one hand, this article responds to calls to incorporate transnationalism into studies of post-socialism (Cervinkova et al 2015;Huttunen 2009;Verdery 1998), while on the other it contributes to the emerging research on how post-socialist gender and family contexts affect transnational migration (Bloch 2017;Deneva 2012;Keough 2006;King and Vullnetari 2009;Matyska 2013;Solari 2010;Tiaynen 2013;Vullnetari and King 2014). We argue that bridging the two fields in this way both yields new understandings of the various historical legacies of intimate transnationalism and enables us to take Eastern Europe and the associated category of post-socialism out of the 'Cold War ghetto' of area studies (Chari and Verdery 2009;Matyska 2013Matyska , 2015.…”

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A post‐socialist legacy in transnational families: Russian and Polish women in Finland

Tiaynen-Qadir

Matyska

2019

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In this article, we bridge the analytical gap between transnational anthropology and the anthropology of post‐socialism to explore the transnational family lives of Russian and Polish women in Finland. We point to three interrelated aspects of the post‐socialist legacy – (1) an inclusive understanding and practice of family that involves the interactions of immediate and extended family configurations; (2) intergenerational solidarity among women; and (3) feminine subjectivity built on the socialist ideal of a working mother. Our ethnographies illustrate that Russian and Polish women maintain their transnational families through networks of transnationally dispersed extended families. In women's lives and selves, traditional gendered motherhood and the liberal idea of a working woman are combined and supported by women's intergenerational companionship across borders. Our case studies show that such concrete, informal relations of affection and care provide women with a sense of security and self‐worth amid transnational change.

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confidence: 99%