Transnational Mother Blame

Protecting and Caring in a Globalized Context

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ID4564391
AuthorsAlyshia Gálvez (0000-0001-8460-7595, Food Studies, The New School, New York, New York, USA, corresponding author)
Year2019
Volume38
Issue7
Pages574-587
Publication date2019-10-03
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueMedical Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0145-9740 • E-ISSN: 1545-5882
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01459740.2019.1653866
PMID31580169
OpenAlexW2979110793
LanguageEN
Citations received11
References cited40

Mexican women in both the United States and Mexico face uneven landscapes of benefits and discourses as they negotiate family members' health. Building on two decades of ethnographic research, I explore how Mexican mothers navigate social and medical services, food provision, food preparation and health, and describe some of the ways that governments in each country abdicate responsibility for shaping structural constraints on citizens' health. Transnational "mother blame" is a pattern that builds on tropes about the simultaneous responsibility and incapacity of women to ensure their family's health, while offering new articulations of responsibility in neoliberal, globalized, transnational contexts in which flexible care arrangements are both necessary and denigrated

Blame · Context (archaeology · Economic growth · Ethnography · Face (sociological concept · Health care · Negotiation · Political science · Public relations · Social responsibility · Social science · Sociology · Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations · Gender Studies · Law · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Health and Trauma · Psychology · Social Psychology

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