Migrant Mothers' Creative Challenges to Racialized Citizenship

<p>How do racialized migrant mothers contest hegemonic racialized formations of citizenship? Bringing together leading scholars from international and multi-disciplinary perspectives this book shows how migrant mothers realise and problematise their role in bringing up future citizens in modern societies increasingly characterised by racial ethnic religious cultural and social diversity. The book stimulates critical thinking on how migrant mothers creatively intervene into citizenship by reworking its racialized meanings and creating new racially plural practices and challenging boundaries. The contributions explore the processes that shape migrant mothers’ cultural and caring work in enabling their children to occupy a place as future citizens despite and against their racialized subordination. The book contributes to disciplinary fields of politics sociology anthropology psychoanalysis participatory arts practice and theory geography queer and gender studies looking at the thematic areas of participatory arts family forms social activism and education in the US Canada the UK France Portugal. </p><p></p><p>These cross-cultural and disciplinary perspectives contribute to the exciting emergence of a distinctive field of research engaging with pressing intellectual and social issues of how ideas and practices of citizenship develop in the face of increasing spatial mobility and across boundaries of generation and ethnicity in the process requiring new creative interventions into how we think about and do citizenship. This book was originally published as a special issue of <i>Ethnic and Racial Studies.</i></p>