Biographies of Roma mothering in contemporary Czechia: exploring tapestries of multi- ethnic gendered identity in a marginalised social position

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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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 the thematic narrative analysis of 25 in-depth biographical interviews conducted in Czechia with Roma mothers in 2018 within the larger scope of an international project ISOTIS. We focus on the constructions of multiple roles and identities Czech Roma mothers experience while living in highly marginalized contexts with regard to their ethnic minority and low-income backgrounds. Their life narratives reveal the 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 , how they reflect on their own socialization input they impose to their daughters, assuming that they will be becoming mothers one day too. The various forms of mothering experiences intertwined in their biographical stories are sometimes in line with more traditional family role models, while other times they represent Roma women’ complicated efforts of becoming emancipated from the larger family, poverty and social marginalization. The narratives present the symptomatic struggle between traditional expectations and changing social conditions in which the mothers live. This struggle is nevertheless highly influenced by racialized discourse that prevails in contemporary Czechia. These complex intersectional structures are inscribed into Roma mothers’ experiences of becoming and being a mother. Thus, we present the subjective narrative understanding of mothering in the context of the social position of Czech Roma woman and the 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

50403 - Social topics (Women´s and gender studies; Social issues; Family studies; Social work)

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

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

Book/collection name

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

ISBN

9781447365624

Number of pages of the result

21

Pages from-to

82-102

Number of pages of the book

252

Publisher name

Policy Press

Place of publication

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UT code for WoS chapter

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