CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2008
| Author | Onica, Cristina |
|---|---|
| Title | Women's Migration from Post-Soviet Moldova: Performing Transnational Motherhood |
| Summary | The topic of transnational motherhood in the post-Soviet context has been rarely studied by scholars. Using the oral history method for my research, I am concentrating on Moldovan women migrants’ justifications and meaning constructions around such debatable topics as motherhood and its transnational performances. The feminist scholarship dedicated to this topic,has mostly reflected the idea that migrant women, through their transnational practices, redefine “motherhood.” Based on the fieldwork I have done in Italy, I contend that women migrants,instead of redefining, try to find ways to adjust to the hegemonic social perceptions of “good motherhood.” They do so by employing the discourse of “good parenting,” which entails narratives on “mothers-heroes,” “suffering mothers,” and “childre n-heroes.ȁ d; On the practical level, they do shift certain normative constructions of the social order and find alternative ways of performing motherhood, which helps them justify against the discourses of “child-a bandoning. 1d; I find that these alternative techniques consist in negotiating citizenships,challenging the post-communist gender order and building transnational communication as sites for performing motherhood. In a broader context, my research reflects hidden aspects of globalization in the post-Soviet space, such as the debates over the performances of human relationships, including affection and care. |
| Supervisor | Peto, Andrea; de Haan, Francisca |
| Department | Gender Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2008/onica_cristina.pdf |
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