‘I feel sometimes I am a bad mother’ : the affective dimension of immigrant mothers’ involvement in their children’s schooling.
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2016
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This article identifies the complex emotional dimensions of migrant mothers’ involvement in
their children’s education, building on feminist scholarship which affirms the importance of
their emotional labour. We present findings from a study of Muslim Iraqi mothers with schoolaged
children in Australia, based on 47 interviews with 25 immigrant mothers. Drawing on
a Bourdieusian conceptual framework, we argue that the reserves of cultural and emotional
capital required for effective participation in children’s education can be both consolidated and
diminished through the process of migration. Perceived ineffective involvement comes at heavy
emotional price, threatening some women’s perceptions of themselves as ‘good mothers’.
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Education, Emotional capital, Ethnic minorities, Habitus, Migration
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AL-DEEN, T. J.; WINDLE, J. A. ‘I feel sometimes I am a bad mother’: the affective dimension of immigrant mothers’ involvement in their children’s schooling. Journal of Sociology, South Melbourne, v. 52, p. 1-17, 2016. Disponível em: <http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1440783316632604>. Acesso em: 25 jan. 2017.