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The global landscape is dotted with border crossings that can be
particularly perilous for displaced women with children in tow.
These mothers are often described by their various legal statuses
like refugee, migrant, immigrant, forced, or voluntary, but their
lived experiences are more complex than a single label. Reclaiming
Migrant Motherhood looks at literature, film, and original
ethnographic research about the lived experiences of displaced
mothers. This volume considers the context of the global refugee
crisis, forced migration, and resettlement as backdrops for the
representations and identity development of displaced women who
mother. Situated within motherhood studies, this book is at the
interdisciplinary intersection of literature, life writing, gender,
(im)migration, refugee, and cultural studies. Contributors examine
literary fiction, memoirs, and children's literature by Ocean
Vuong, Nadifa Mohamed, Laila Halaby, Susan Muaddi Darraj, Terry
Farish, Thannha Lai, Bich Minh Nguyen, Julie Otsuka, V. V.
Ganeshananthan, Shankari Chandran, and Mary Anne Mohanraj. The book
also explores ethnographic research, creative writing, and film
related to refugee studies. The border-crossings discussed in the
volume are often physical, with stories from Afghanistan, Syria,
Vietnam, Japan, Iraq, Canada, Greece, Somalia, Palestine, Sri
Lanka, and America. The borders that displaced mothers face are
examined through frameworks of postcolonialism, nationalism,
feminism, and diaspora studies.
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