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1. South Korean Birthmothers Negotiate Everyday Violence and Child Loss Through Storytelling
University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för öst- och sydöstasienstudierAbstract : Adoption scholars have dismantled the story of adoption as a humanitarian effort to save destitute children and framed adoption as a transnational issue underpinned by neo-colonial and patriarchal structures governing the relations between the West and ‘the rest’. This thesis builds on those insights and thus contributes to a growing body of literature within critical adoption studies. READ MORE
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2. "A mother never stops waiting" : Exploring Motherhood as an Identity Marker in Social Movements
University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3)Abstract : The movement Caravana de Madres de Migrantes Desaparecidos; a transnational social movement uniting Central American mothers from Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador and Nicaragua whose children have disappeared in Mexico while migrating to the US, is part of a Latin American tradition where a mother-centered kinship system is at the center. The movement has managed to reunite more than 300 families. READ MORE
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3. Migrating Mothers’ Experiences of Motherhood and Mothering in an ever-globalizing World.
University essay from Lunds universitet/Genusvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : Female migrants comprise half of the worlds migrating people today. Modern ideals of mothering and motherhood entail mothers staying at home to care for their children, mother’s having to migrate away from their families contradicts current (modern) values. READ MORE
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4. Merit Making, Money and Motherhood : Women's Experiences of Commercial Surrogacy in Thailand
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Centrum för genusvetenskapAbstract : This thesis explores transnational commercial surrogacy in the context of Thailand, with the specific purpose to examine Thai women’s motives and experiences of being a surrogate mother. The study is based on two months of fieldwork in Bangkok between June and August 2014 during which interviews were conducted with eleven former, current or future surrogate mothers. READ MORE
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5. To mother or to migrate? Ideal motherhood and normative migration: Perceptions from Nicaraguan migrant mothers
University essay from Lunds universitet/SociologiAbstract : Female transnational labour migrants account for half of Nicaragua’s high volume of migrants, where women partake in international seasonal migration, primarily to Costa Rica, to improve the lives of themselves and their children. The migration processes are often informal, short-term and repetitive, often with reasons related to Nicaragua’s high poverty levels and unemployment rates. READ MORE
