Cadernos Pagu
Volume 2017, Issue 49, 2017

Transnational motherhood and the production of subjectivity: Experiences of migrant Brazilian women living in London [Maternidade transnacional e produção de subjetividade: As experiências de mulheres brasileiras imigrantes vivendo em Londres] (Article) (Open Access)

Carpenedo M. , Nardi H.
  • a Departamento de sociologia, Universidade de Cambridge, United Kingdom
  • b Instituto de Psicologia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Abstract

This study explores how transnational motherhood is experienced by a group of Brazilian women participating in the global care chain. Our analysis indicates that transnational motherhood is an experience ripe with contradictions and emotional constraints. On one hand, transnational motherhood can subjugate women for not conforming to conventional motherhood norms. On the other hand, the migratory experience allows women to (re)negotiate their maternal roles, producing new meanings for care and mothering practices. © 2016, All rights reserved.

Author Keywords

motherhood Transnational motherhood Subjectivity Global care chains

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Link
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85010842169&doi=10.1590%2f18094449201700490012&partnerID=40&md5=cc63b5093e7bc96d79edd90e8e09623e
DOI: 10.1590/18094449201700490012
ISSN: 01048333
Original Language: Portuguese