Missing mother

Migrant mothers, maternal surrogates, and the global economy of care

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4942297
AutoresJean Page Tan (Ateneo de Manila University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2012
Volumen112
Número1
Páginas113-132
Fecha de publicación2012-10-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThesis Eleven (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0725-5136 • E-ISSN: 1461-7455
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0725513612450503
OpenAlexW2008134241
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas19

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