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Reclaiming Migrant Motherhood
Identity, Belonging, and Displacement in a Global Context
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2022
Summary
The global landscape is dotted with border crossings that can be particularly perilous for displaced women with children in tow. These mothers are often described by their various legal statuses like refugee, migrant, immigrant, forced, or voluntary, but their lived experiences are more complex than a single label. Reclaiming Migrant Motherhood looks at literature, film, and original ethnographic research about the lived experiences of displaced mothers. This volume considers the context of the global refugee crisis, forced migration, and resettlement as backdrops for the representations and identity development of displaced women who mother.
Situated within motherhood studies, this book is at the interdisciplinary intersection of literature, life writing, gender, (im)migration, refugee, and cultural studies. Contributors examine literary fiction, memoirs, and children’s literature by Ocean Vuong, Nadifa Mohamed, Laila Halaby, Susan Muaddi Darraj, Terry Farish, Thannha Lai, Bich Minh Nguyen, Julie Otsuka, V. V. Ganeshananthan, Shankari Chandran, and Mary Anne Mohanraj. The book also explores ethnographic research, creative writing, and film related to refugee studies. The border-crossings discussed in the volume are often physical, with stories from Afghanistan, Syria, Vietnam, Japan, Iraq, Canada, Greece, Somalia, Palestine, Sri Lanka, and America. The borders that displaced mothers face are examined through frameworks of postcolonialism, nationalism, feminism, and diaspora studies.
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Copyright year
2022
ISBN-Print
978-1-6669-0205-1
ISBN-Online
978-1-6669-0206-8
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
198
Product type
Edited Book
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Introduction No access Pages 1 - 10
“We were born from beauty” No access
Domesticating Displacement, Encounters with Refugee Mothers No access
Tracing the Impacts of War in Nadifa Mohamed’s The Orchard of Lost Souls No access
Writing about My Mother No access
The Ghost Mother in Two Vietnamese American Refugee Novels No access
Embroidering Intergenerational Threads of a Roza No access
Mothering on Enemy Land No access
Guiding, Shaping, and Resisting No access
Iraqi Mothers, Diasporic Sons No access
(Un)inhabitable “homes” for mothers and daughters No access
Index No access Pages 185 - 194
About the Contributors No access Pages 195 - 198
