The Construction of Gendered Citizenship at the Welfare Office: An Ethnographic Comparison of Welfare-to-Work Workshops in the United States and the Netherlands

Korteweg, Anna C.

doi:10.1093/sp/jxl005

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“…Yet, current liberal democracies to varying degrees promote the Universal Breadwinner Model as the prime route into citizenship for women. Despite a shared discourse of creating gender-neutral worker-citizens, the concrete gendered implementation by bureaucrats varies in different countries and within countries and is differentiated along lines of racialization and class (Korteweg 2006, Fuller et al 2008.…”

Section: Mothering Work and Citizenshipmentioning

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Reframing migrant mothers as citizens

Erel

2011

Citizenship Studies

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This article suggests reframing the study of migrant women's mothering from a question of integration to an engagement with citizenship. Drawing on research with Polish migrants to the UK, it illustrates how migrant mothers and children construct complex belongings, referencing local, national (UK and Polish), transnational and supra-national levels of belonging. Migrant mothers' sense of ethnic distinctness goes hand in hand with universalistic discourses of belonging. The notion of competent mothering is a key aspect constituting the migrant mothers' narratives of 'good citizenship'. Their narratives challenge the devaluing of their mothering practices as migrants, negotiating not only national but also class and racialized identities so that the figure of the well-educated Polish child symbolizes legitimate mobility and belonging. The article concludes by developing elements of a research agenda on migrant women's mothering as a citizenship practice.

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Section: Mothering Work and Citizenshipmentioning

confidence: 99%

Reframing migrant mothers as citizens

Erel

2011

Citizenship Studies

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“…Recent US research on welfare reliant mothers' participation in job clubs traces the way that mothers eventually embrace a worker citizen identity (Korteweg, 2006). This process happens through the repeated interventions of job club instructors whose strategic partial interpretations of mothers' subjectivities constitute these women as 'future workers'.…”

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Lone motherhood, welfare reform and active citizen subjectivity

Pulkingham

Fuller

Kershaw

2010

Critical Social Policy

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Lone motherhood, welfare reform and active citizen subjectivityAbstract Welfare-to-work policies have become a central priority of governments in Canada, the US, the UK, Australia and Scandinavia. Drawing on multiple in-depth interviews generated as part of a longitudinal qualitative study, we explore how welfare is imbricated in lone mothers' subjectivity and citizenship. We consider women's everyday claims-making activities as we interrogate three dimensions of welfare reform in British Columbia, Canada: (i) the employment imperative underlying active citizen subjectivity and the way this plays out in terms of gender, race and classbased occupational streaming; (ii) the coerciveness of gendered norms instantiated in such streaming; and (iii) the resulting practices of stratified reproduction. Following in the tradition of critical poverty studies, our research focuses on claims-making activities to challenge prevailing public policy practice that risks positioning impoverished lone mothers 'under erasure', invisible as mothers or moral citizens, and visible only as low waged worker citizens.

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“…For example, both the US and the UK have adopted policies that have moved away from supporting lone mothers as private carers towards encouraging their labour market participation. If despite similar policy objectives the employment outcomes differ, lower level institutional factors and approaches to implementation that explain some of the variation are explored in greater detail (Korteweg, 2006).…”

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Comparative methods in research on gender and welfare states

Sigle‐Rushton

2009

Twenty-First Century Society

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The Construction of Gendered Citizenship at the Welfare Office: An Ethnographic Comparison of Welfare-to-Work Workshops in the United States and the Netherlands

Cited by 60 publications

References 45 publications

Reframing migrant mothers as citizens

Reframing migrant mothers as citizens

Lone motherhood, welfare reform and active citizen subjectivity

Comparative methods in research on gender and welfare states

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