(Un)folding places with care

Migrant caregivers 'dwelling-in-folds

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4881376
AutoresDara Ivanova (0000-0003-0780-4311, Erasmus School of Health Policy and Management Erasmus University Rotterdam Rotterdam the Netherlands, autor de correspondencia)
Año2022
Volumen22
Número2
Páginas211-225
Fecha de publicación2022-04-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaGlobal Networks (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1470-2266 • E-ISSN: 1471-0374
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/glob.12340
OpenAlexW3198864853
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas41

This paper is based on longitudinal ethnographic work among Bulgarian migrant women who work as live-in caregivers and domestic workers in Italian households and explores the analytical potential of place and place making for transmigration literature by conceptualizing the co-production of place with subjectivities. Such approach sensitizes to mundane practices of care and belonging, which actively create migratory lives of meaning. Drawing on Deleuze's concept of the fold as subjectivity and Clifford's notion of dwelling-in-travelling, I propose the term 'dwelling-in-folds' - and its mechanism 'folding place' - in order to make sense of temporary migrants' experience of place(s) that foregrounds their ability to connect and reconcile fractures and discontinuities, particularly when doing transnational motherhood. In doing so, the paper folds place empirically - showing how 'dwelling-in-folds' is achieved and unfolds place analytically - demonstrating the potential of this concept for sociology and transmigration studies

Epistemology · Ethnography · Sociology · Subjectivity · Anthropology · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Engineering · Gender Studies · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Philosophy