Missing mother
Migrant mothers, maternal surrogates, and the global economy of care
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4942297 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jean Page Tan (Ateneo de Manila University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 112 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 113-132 |
| Publication date | 2012-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Thesis Eleven (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0725-5136 • E-ISSN: 1461-7455 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0725513612450503 |
| OpenAlex | W2008134241 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 19 |
A longitudinal perspective on motherhood that spans the experience of gestation, birthing, the care of young children, and the mother's relation to her grown children makes way for a conception of the mother as essentially plural. It shall be argued in this paper that maternity is necessarily tied to surrogacy, that it is divided into a multiplicity of tasks inevitably parceled out to multiple agents. In this essay, the analysis of maternal surrogacy is focused on the phenomenon of mothering from a distance, a maternal practice engendered by the feminization and globalization of labor markets. By both affirming the value of maternal surrogates and questioning the limits of surrogacy, this analysis of motherhood challenges both the economic exploitation that engenders and sustains distant mothering and the gendered division of care labor that supports the global economy of care
Division of labour · Globalization · Phenomenon · Plural · Political science · Sociology · Gender Studies · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Law · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Work-Family Balance Challenges
Servants of Globalization
The cultural contradictions of motherhood
Of Woman Born
Maternal Thinking
Mothering
Globalization and Families
Sri Lankan female domestic workers overseas
Rethinking Ruddick and the Ethnocentrism Critique of Maternal Thinking
The Moral Significance of Birth
The “Nanny” Question in Feminism
Constructing the “Good Mother”
The Impact of Parents’ Overseas Employment on Educational Outcomes of Filipino Children
Overseas Filipino Workers and Text Messaging
Globalizing Care Economies and Migrant Workers
Mothering from a Distance
Migration status and transnational mothering
I'm Here, but I'm There
Conceiving and Investigating Motherhood
Searching for wages and mothering from Afar
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,17 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2020 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |