This international multidisciplinary conference engages with
perspectives from cultural studies, cultural geography, sociology,
migration studies, and the creative arts to explore how migrant mothers
realise and problematise their role in bringing up future citizens in
contemporary societies, which are increasingly characterised ethnic,
racial, religious, cultural and social diverse.
It will ask important questions about the processes that shape
migrant mothers’ cultural and caring work in enabling their children to
occupy a place as future citizens. It also interrogates how immigration
and integration policies produce particular obstacles and limitations
for migrant families and children.
In considering migrant women’s caring, cultural and social practices
as interventions into citizenship the conference aims to find out what
we can learn by understanding transnational social and cultural
resources of care, and also the inter-relationship between motherhood
and nationhood.
Confirmed keynote speakers
Professor Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, University of Southern California
Professor Eithne Luibheid, University of Arizona, U.S
Professor Ann Phoenix, Institute of Education, London
Professor Hirokazu Yoshikawa, New York University
Further deatails:
http://www.open.ac.uk/ccig/events/migrant-mothers-caring-for-the-future-creative-interventions-in-making-new-citizens-0
Registration:
http://www.lsbu.ac.uk/whats-on/international-conference-migrant-mothers-caring-for-the-future-creative-interventions-in-making-new-citizens
