Birth, Belonging and Migrant Mothers

Narratives of Reproduction in Feminist Migration Studies

Bibliographic Data

ID3946711
AuthorsIrene Gedalof (0000-0002-1220-9982, corresponding author)
Year2009
Volume93
Issue1
Pages81-100
Publication date2009-11-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueFeminist Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0141-7789 • E-ISSN: 1466-4380
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1057/fr.2009.23
OpenAlexW2028661282
LanguageEN
Citations received57
References cited31

Drawing on feminist philosophical accounts of reproduction and initial data acquired through research with migrant mothers in London, this article argues that the role and place of reproduction remains under-theorized within scholarly accounts of women's role in migration processes. Working with an expanded concept of reproduction that includes not only childbirth and motherhood, but also the work of reproducing heritage, culture and structures of belonging, it argues that feminist migration scholars can draw on valuable theoretical resources in order to tell more complicated stories about the place of reproduction in migration, and challenge the often problematic gendered distinctions between travelling and staying put, change and repetition that continue to underpin some of the narrative structures operative in migration studies

Biology · Feminism · Narrative · Order (exchange) · Repetition (rhetorical device) · Reproduction · Social reproduction · Social science · Sociology · Anthropology · Cultural Studies · Ecology · Gender Studies · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · Migration and Labor Dynamics

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