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Low-income Roma Mothers Negotiating Mothering in the Context of Poverty

Low-income Roma Mothers Negotiating Mothering in the Context of Poverty This article focuses on low-income Roma mothers in the Czech Republic. Drawing upon long-term fieldwork and qualitative interviews with these mothers, we show how mothering is formed, negotiated, and reproduced in the context of poverty. In particular, we analyze three characteristics of mothering that we identified in the research: othermothering, the creation of multigenerational households, and teen motherhood. We illuminate how low-income status is reproduced through motherhood and argue that while mothering is a highly individualized and subjective experience, it is also an experience that is substantially shaped by the welfare state and by structural forces and processes. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Poverty Taylor & Francis

Low-income Roma Mothers Negotiating Mothering in the Context of Poverty

Journal of Poverty , Volume 28 (2): 24 – Feb 23, 2024
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Taylor & Francis
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© 2022 The Author(s). Published with license by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
ISSN
1087-5549
eISSN
1540-7608
DOI
10.1080/10875549.2022.2128975
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Abstract

This article focuses on low-income Roma mothers in the Czech Republic. Drawing upon long-term fieldwork and qualitative interviews with these mothers, we show how mothering is formed, negotiated, and reproduced in the context of poverty. In particular, we analyze three characteristics of mothering that we identified in the research: othermothering, the creation of multigenerational households, and teen motherhood. We illuminate how low-income status is reproduced through motherhood and argue that while mothering is a highly individualized and subjective experience, it is also an experience that is substantially shaped by the welfare state and by structural forces and processes.

Journal

Journal of PovertyTaylor & Francis

Published: Feb 23, 2024

Keywords: Ethnic minority mothering; low-income mothers; Roma minority; Czech Republic

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