Caring While Missing Children's Infancy: Transnational Mothering among Honduran Women Working in Greater Washington

Many women from developing countries migrate to postindustrial countries while leaving their children with other family members, especially the children's grandmothers. Forced by macro structural conditions, immigrants have to develop a variety of strategies to overcome this spatial separation....

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Published in:Human organization 2015-04, Vol.74 (1), p.62-73
Main Author: Molina, Raúl Sánchez
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Capitalism
Children
Children & youth
Cold War
Developing Countries
Employment
Ethnicity
Ethnography
Families & family life
Females
Foreigners
Fruits
Gender
Globalization
Housework
Immigrants
Immigration policy
Incorporation
Labor market
LDCs
Migration
Mothers
Nation states
Noncitizens
Politics
Remittances
Sex
Sociopolitical factors
Transnationalism
United States
Values
Women
Working Women
World War II
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Summary:Many women from developing countries migrate to postindustrial countries while leaving their children with other family members, especially the children's grandmothers. Forced by macro structural conditions, immigrants have to develop a variety of strategies to overcome this spatial separation. This is the case of most Honduran immigrant women who have migrated to the United States in the last decades. The devastation left by Hurricane Mitch (1998) in Honduras and severe social political crisis in the last decade have pushed thousands of women to work in the domestic (reproductive) labor market in the vicinity of Washington, DC while leaving their children at home. Using ethnographic data, this paper will focus on how structural, ethnic, generational, and gender factors affect the development of transnational mothering practices among Honduran women, highlighting their social contributions to both sending and receiving societies.
ISSN:0018-7259
1938-3525
DOI:10.17730/humo.74.1.p456q732p644p601