Project

Citizenship practices among undocumented immigrant mothers: A comparative ethnographic case study in Flanders (Belgium) and France

Code
01DI2212
Duration
01 September 2012 → 31 August 2014
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Research disciplines
  • Medical and health sciences
    • Public health care
    • Public health sciences
    • Public health services
Keywords
education justice motherhood mothering gender belonging undocumented citizenship motherwork identity migration nationality immigrants home
 
Project description

Which citizenship practices for undocumented mothers? This is the central question of this study and argues that despite a position as legal and cultural outsiders this women are creating new practices of citizenship that go beyond nation, race and class. Through their mothering as care-work and daily encounters with others, the undocumented mothers create new hybrid identities and multiple belongings.