Cultural Capital, Motherhood Capital, and Low-income Immigrant Mothers' Institutional Negotiations
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2363389 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ming-Cheng Miriam Lo (0000-0001-7931-8078, University of California, Davis, CA, USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 59 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 694-713 |
| Publication date | 2016-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociological Perspectives (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0731-1214 • E-ISSN: 1533-8673 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0731121416629988 |
| OpenAlex | W2281617566 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 13 |
| References cited | 52 |
Complementing the research on immigrants' exclusion from most U.S. service institutions as well as their 'bureaucratic incorporation,' this study examines how and why immigrants' negotiations with informal barriers vary across institutional contexts. Drawing on 25 in-depth interviews, I compare low-income, monolingual Mexican immigrant mothers' caretaking experiences across two settings: at schools and in health care facilities. My analysis suggests that different institutional settings place different demands for cultural capital on these women while offering varying opportunities for their usage of 'motherhood capital,' resulting in diverse patterns of institutional negotiations. These mothers' interactions with school personnel feature the experiences of 'emergent alliance.' When advocating for their children at healthcare facilities, they report a mixture of 'successful confrontations' and 'blocked negotiations.' These findings contribute to discussions of immigrant inclusion/exclusion. More broadly speaking, by developing the concept of motherhood capital, the study dialogues with the literatures on cultural capital and political mothering
Alliance · Bureaucracy · Cultural capital · Demographic economics · Economics · Geography · Immigration · Negotiation · Political capital · Political science · Politics · Social capital · Social science · Sociology · Gender Studies · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Racial and Ethnic Identity Research
The complexities of belonging
Learning the “Language” of Motherhood as International Graduate Students
Trust us, we feed this to our kids”
Giving Back”
It Matters How They See You’
Motherhood as capital
Refugees, asylum-seekers and undocumented migrants and the experience of parenthood
Legitimate suffering
Narratives of single, black mothers using cultural capital to access autism interventions in schools
Partnering with immigrant families to promote language justice and equity in education
Motherhood capital' in tourism fieldwork
Homelessness and becoming a mother
Deserving Immigrants and Good Advocate Mothers
Deciding who lives
Grassroots Warriors
Subtractive Schooling
The New Institutionalism in Organizational Analysis
New Destination Dreaming
Unequal Childhoods
Disappearing Acts
New Faces in New Places
Handbook of theory and research for the sociology of education
Citizenship and Social Class
The Discovery of Grounded Theory
Immigrants, Welfare Reform, and the U.S. Safety Net
The Caring Self
Deciding Who Lives
Formations of Class and Gender
The Logic of Practice
Institutional Theories of Organization
Immigrant and Native-Born Mexican-American Parents' Involvement in a Public School
Parental Involvement and the Academic Achievement of Mexican American Youths
Intersectionality
The Politics of Welfare Inclusion
Mexican American Women Grassroots Community Activists
The Institutional Environment
An invitation to reflexive sociology
Police Practices in Immigrant-Destination Cities
Structural Choices and Representational Biases
It's All In the Family
Resisting the colonization of the lifeworld? Immigrant patients' experiences with co-ethnic healthcare workers
Mobilizing Motherhood
Deserving to a point
The effect of patient race and socio-economic status on physicians' perceptions of patients
Consumerism, reflexivity and the medical encounter
Immigrant Bureaucratic Incorporation
Invisible Inequality
Immigrants and Welfare
An Invitation of Reflexive Sociology
Becoming a Citizen in the United States and Canada
Black'' Cultural Capital, Status Positioning, and Schooling Conflicts for Low-Income African American Youth
Different Subjects
Reworking Bourdieu's 'Capital
Cultural Health Capital
Politics and Institutionalism
Gender and International Migration
Beyond cultural competency
Political Mothering
The Changing Color of Welfare? How Whites' Attitudes toward Latinos Influence Support for Welfare
Culture, Class, and Connections
Segmented assimilation on the ground
Access to health services for immigrants in the USA
Conceptualizing 'unrecognized cultural currency
| Unique citing works | 13 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,44 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2026 (10) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |