A Mamá No la Vas a Llevar en la Maleta: Undocumented Mothers Crossing and Contesting Borders for Their Children’s Education

This paper illuminates the border‐crossing and border‐contesting work of undocumented mothers seeking opportunities for their children. Mothers navigate dual threats of deportability and poverty‐induced mobility, preparing children for, and utilizing schools to stave off, these possibilities. Examin...

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Veröffentlicht in:Anthropology & education quarterly 2018-12, Vol.49 (4), p.413-427
1. Verfasser: Alexander, Rebecca
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:This paper illuminates the border‐crossing and border‐contesting work of undocumented mothers seeking opportunities for their children. Mothers navigate dual threats of deportability and poverty‐induced mobility, preparing children for, and utilizing schools to stave off, these possibilities. Examining border crossing as parent involvement, I introduce “bordermothering” to elucidate the paradoxical ways in which mothers defy gendered norms of embodied parenting to provide for their children and invoke these norms to contest the conditions that compel their defiance. El ensayo presente ilumina el trabajo de madres indocumentadas al cruzar y desafiar fronteras en la búsqueda de oportunidades educacionales para sus hijos. Las madres navegan la doble amenaza de la deportación y la movilidad forzada por causa de la pobreza, preparando así a sus hijos para estas posiblidades y utilizando los sistemas escolares como herramienta de resistencia frente a tales amenazas.
ISSN:0161-7761
1548-1492
DOI:10.1111/aeq.12268