Illegality, motherhood, and place: Undocumented Latinas making meaning and negotiating daily life
Illegality, motherhood, and place: Undocumented Latinas making meaning and negotiating daily life
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DOI：
10.1016/j.wsif.2017.12.004
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发表时间：
2018-03-01
影响因子：
1.4
通讯作者：
Schmalzbauer, Leah
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作者：
Abrego, Leisy J.;Schmalzbauer, Leah
联邦移民政策有力地塑造了移民及其家人的生活，但各地的影响却不尽相同。本文认真对待社会建构的地点概念，借鉴了两项定性研究，一项是在蒙大拿州西南部的新农村移民目的地，另一项是在加利福尼亚州洛杉矶的传统城市目的地，以研究无证移民如何在美国度过日常生活。面对法律暴力和特定地点的剥削形式，母亲们通过参与或创造性地重新定义当地工作、社会服务和网络来发挥紧张的代理形式。无论他们如何为孩子实现经济或情感稳定，他们都会通过母性的视角尽可能地理解这个地方的意义。分析表明，非法性与地方的动态特征相交叉，产生了不同的剥削经历和通常以母性为中心的受限机构。
Federal immigration policies powerfully shape immigrants' and their families' lives, but the consequences are uneven across place. Taking seriously the notion of place as socially constructed, this article draws from two qualitative studies, one in the new rural immigrant destination of Southwest, Montana, and the other in the traditional urban destination of Los Angeles, California, to examine how undocumented immigrants navigate daily life in the US. In the face of legal violence and place-specific forms of exploitation, mothers exert strained forms of agency through access to or creative redefinitions of local work, social services, and networks. They make meaning of place as best as they can through the lens of motherhood, regardless of how they achieve financial or emotional stability for their children. The analysis reveals that illegality intersects with dynamic characteristics of place to produce varying experiences of exploitation and constrained agency centered often on motherhood.