"Other Mothers," Migration, and a Transnational Nurturing Nexus.
Based on thirteen months of nonconsecutive ethnographic fieldwork (2001–11) among women labor migrants in Istanbul and their families in southern Moldova, this essay is framed by a critique of the forms of nurturing that are often portrayed as normative in discussions of transnational mobility. Patr...
| Publicado en: | Signs: Journal of Women in Culture & Society Vol. 43; no. 1; pp. 53 - 76 |
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University of Chicago Press
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