"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...

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Published in:	Signs: Journal of Women in Culture & Society Vol. 43; no. 1; pp. 53 - 76
Main Author:	Bloch, Alexia
Format:	Article
Published:	University of Chicago Press Autumn2017
Subjects:	Women foreign workers Labor mobility Child rearing Nurturing behavior Mothers Grandmothers History
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