Saisir la prise en charge des enfants au-delà des mères
Based on biographical interviews on the migration of domestic workers in Seychelles from the 1950s to the 1970s, this article highlights the ambivalent role of matrifocal households in adjusting to migratory constraints on childcare. In these households, kinship relations are organised around mother...
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2024
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| Accés en línia: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Sumari: | Based on biographical interviews on the migration of domestic workers in Seychelles from the 1950s to the 1970s, this article highlights the ambivalent role of matrifocal households in adjusting to migratory constraints on childcare. In these households, kinship relations are organised around mothers and several generations of women support each other. Migrant women can ask them to look after their children, but this support comes at a social cost. Because the central role of mothers is legitimised by day-to-day care practices that are incompatible with migration, women who resort to such placements occupy a more peripheral position within households. Other maternal figures take over and migrant mothers must do with this competition during and after migration. Thus, starting from the changes caused by female migration, this article invites to consider childcare beyond mothers and to analyse the interplay between the material and social dimensions of kinship ties. |
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