Biographies of Roma Mothering in Contemporary Czechia. Exploring Tapestries of Multi-ethnic Gendered Identity in a Marginalised Social Position

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.51952/9781447365648.ch004" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.51952/9781447365648.ch004</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.51952/9781447365648.ch004" target="_blank" >10.51952/9781447365648.ch004</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Biographies of Roma Mothering in Contemporary Czechia. Exploring Tapestries of Multi-ethnic Gendered Identity in a Marginalised Social Position

Original language description

The chapter is based on a thematic narrative analysis of 25 in-depth biographical interviews conducted in Czechia with Roma mothers in 2018 within the larger scope of the international project ‘Inclusive Education and Social Support to Tackle Inequalities in Society’. The focus is on the constructions of the multiple roles and identities that Czech Roma mothers experience while living in highly marginalised contexts with regard to their ethnic minority and low-income backgrounds. Their life narratives reveal patterns of mothering in their families of origin; how they were, step by step, becoming mothers (physically, socially and emotionally); what it means to them to be a mother; and how they reflect on their own socialisation and the imposition of their socialisation on the daughters they raise, assuming that they too will be becoming mothers one day. The various forms of mothering experiences intertwined in their biographical stories are sometimes in line with more traditional family role models, whereas, at other times, they represent Roma women’s complicated efforts to become emancipated from a larger family, poverty and social marginalisation. The narratives present the symptomatic struggle between the traditional expectations and changing social conditions in which the mothers live. This struggle is nevertheless highly influenced by the racialised discourse that prevails in contemporary Czechia. These complex intersectional structures are inscribed into Roma mothers’ experiences of becoming and being a mother. Thus, the authors present the subjective narrative understanding of mothering in the context of the social position of Czech Roma women and their notions of mothering in the private sphere while taking the wider social context and narrative meaning-making into account.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

C - Chapter in a specialist book

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50301 - Education, general; including training, pedagogy, didactics [and education systems]

Project

<a href="/en/project/LX22NPO5101" target="_blank" >LX22NPO5101: The National Institute for Research on the Socioeconomic Impact of Diseases and Systemic Risks</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name

Biographical Research and the Meanings of Mothering. Life Choices, Identities and Methods

ISBN

9781447365631

Number of pages of the result

21

Pages from-to

82-102

Number of pages of the book

252

Publisher name

Bristol University Press

Place of publication

Bristol

UT code for WoS chapter

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