MIGRANT MOTHER. TRANSNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE IN THE RESEARCH ON PARENTAL ROLES CHANGES (Matka migrantka. Perspektywa transnarodowosci w badaniu przemian ról rodzicielskich)

• Authors: Urbanska Sylwia
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

This article analyses (mainly theoretical) the implications of contemporary social changes due to feminization of global migration and the strategy of transnational mothering for the dominant discourse of mothering in Poland. Many macroeconomic and global factors set the stage for these kinds of parenting arrangements (Parrenas:2005) but migration of such unprivileged groups, challenge the middle class ideal of co-resident family and the ideal of intensive mothering. First, the authoress describes the transnational (mothering) phenomenon and the first reaction to it as shown in both public discourses and actions of public institutions in Poland, which are similar to moral panics (Cohen). Such features can be found while analyzing discourses about 'Euro-orphans' (such a label is given to migrants' children) that have absorbed public discourses in the first period 2007/2008 in Poland. Next, she will explore the relations between the said moral panics and what she is trying to show - the absence of transnational approaches in public practices. Thus, she relates to various global and local contexts: as feminization of global migration, care chains, local Polish culture, historical perspectives on mothering, etc. She proposes to treat institutional definition of families and gender-based parental roles as important evidence of insufficient understanding of qualities of contemporary social change forced by migrations and mobile societies with which families have to deal with. The authoress explores here also the concept of territoriality which is embedded in public ideals of 'good/proper' mothering and the concept of transnational mothering.

Keywords

EN

GLOBAL MIGRATION; MORAL PANICS; SOCIAL CHANGE; TRANSNATIONAL MOTHERING

Discipline

• SOCIOLOGY: SOCIOLOGY

• Publisher: Wydział Studiów Międzynarodowych i Politycznych Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego oraz Polska Akademia Umiejętności
• Journal: Studia Migracyjne - Przegląd Polonijny
• Year: 2009
• Volume: 35
• Issue: 1(131)
• Pages: 61-84
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Urbanska Sylwia

• Sylwia Urbanska, Uniwersytet Warszawski, Instytut Socjologii, ul. Karowa 18, 00-324 Warszawa, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

10PLAAAA077326