I feel sometimes I am a bad mother

The affective dimension of immigrant mothers' involvement in their children's schooling

Bibliographic Data

ID2399332
AuthorsTaghreed Jamal Al-Deen (0000-0003-3258-0057, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, corresponding author), Joel Austin Windle (0000-0002-8544-9215, Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto), Joel Windle (Institute for Social Sciences and the Humanities, Federal University of Ouro Preto, Brazil)
Year2017
Volume53
Issue1
Pages110-126
Publication date2017-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Sociology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1440-7833 • E-ISSN: 1741-2978
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1440783316632604
OpenAlexW2402723674
LanguageEN
Citations received18
References cited50

This article identifies the complex emotional dimensions of migrant mothers' involvement in their children's education, building on feminist scholarship which affirms the importance of their emotional labour. We present findings from a study of Muslim Iraqi mothers with school-aged children in Australia, based on 47 interviews with 25 immigrant mothers. Drawing on a Bourdieusian conceptual framework, we argue that the reserves of cultural and emotional capital required for effective participation in children's education can be both consolidated and diminished through the process of migration. Perceived ineffective involvement comes at heavy emotional price, threatening some women's perceptions of themselves as 'good mothers

Cultural capital · Developmental psychology · Dimension (graph theory) · Immigration · Perception · Political science · Scholarship · Social science · Sociology · Gender Studies · Global Education and Multiculturalism · Parental Involvement in Education · Psychology · Religious Education and Schools · Social Psychology

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