Mobility, Moralities and Motherhood: Navigating the Contingencies of Cape Verdean Lives
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In this article we discuss how transnational motherhood is managed and experienced in contexts of uncertainty and conflicting pressures. We propose a conceptual approach and apply it to a specific case: female migration from Cape Verde to Europe and North America. The analysis is based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork conducted by the authors in Cape Verde and the diaspora over the past decade. We first address the ideal of and expectations towards transnational mothering in Cape Verde, relating these to local forms of kinship, fostering and household organisation. We demonstrate that lengthy separations between mothers and young children are socially constructed as a normal aspect of transnational lives: they are a painful necessity, but are not automatically assumed to be traumatic. In an ideal situation, the biological mother and the foster mother play complementary roles in what we describe as the transnational fostering triangle. Subsequently, we ask how transnational mothering is confronted by unforeseen incidents and obstacles, which we refer to as contingencies. We relate these contingencies to the negotiation of individual and collective ideas and aspirations. The Cape Verdean case is interesting in a comparative perspective because of the social acceptance of mother–child separation. Our analysis explores how this acceptance co-exists with the real-life challenges of transnational mothering.
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Transnational childcare arrangements and practices are embedded in culturally prescribed notions of family care responsibilities.
“Transnational childcare arrangements and practices are embedded in culturally prescribed notions of family care responsibilities (Åkesson et al. 2012;Mazzucato and Schans 2011).”
From Navigating transnational childcare relationships: migrant parents and their children's caregivers in the origin country (2017) · cites this paper as Åkesson et al. 2012
Receiving a child in a society in which child fostering is informally institutionalized offers status and respect to the caregiver.
“Receiving a child in a society in which child fostering is informally institutionalized offers status and respect to the caregiver (Åkesson et al. 2012; Øien 2006).”
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- Authors
- Åkesson, L., Carling, J., & Drotbohm, H.
- Affiliations
- University of Gothenburg (SE)
- Peace Research Institute Oslo (NO)
- University of Freiburg (DE)
- Corresponding author
- Åkesson, Lisa
- Venue
- Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2012-02
- Volume
- 38
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 237-260
- ISSN
- 1369-183X (ISSN-L)
- 1469-9451
- OpenAlex
- W2046843024
- Cited by
- 125
- References
- 36
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 31.94
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Demography › Diaspora, migration, transnational identity
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Migration and Labor Dynamics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving
- Keywords
- transnational motherhood, Cape Verdean diaspora, immigrant women, maternal separation, foster care, kinship, morality, mobility, Cape Verde
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