Project/scholarship details
- Project/scholarship ID
117259
- Reference
PTDC/CS-ANT/117259/2010
- FundRef URI
- Funder
FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P.
- Funder's country
Portugal
- Funding program
3599-PPCDT
- Funding amount
74,140.00 €
- Start date
2012-02-01
- End date
2015-07-31
Documents
The changing scale of imprisonment and the transformation of care : the erosion...
Cunha, Manuela Ivone P. da(pre-print version); Portugal has been depicted as a “Welfare Society” where the shortcomings of the support provided by an incipient Welfare State are absorbed by informal social networks that provide care on a personal basis. The strength of these ties is also what has led to consider the “poverty” observed in Southern European contexts as specific and different from the “exclusion” emerging in late capitalis...
Reclusão feminina e processos de reconfiguração familiar
Granja, Rafaela Patrícia Gonçalves; Cunha, Manuela Ivone P. da; Machado, HelenaFCT
Mothering from prison and ideologies of intensive parenting: enacting vulnerabl...
Granja, Rafaela Patrícia Gonçalves; Cunha, Manuela Ivone P. da; Machado, Helena“Intensive parenting” ideologies have been increasingly disseminated in popular culture, expert discourses, and social policy. These have impacted particularly mothers owing to their actual or presumed central role in child rearing. One of the main features of these ideologies is an increasing apportioning of rights and responsibilities to families without taking into account the resources needed to sustain the...
In dialogue with self and the world: Cape Verdean migrant pregnancy in Portugal
Challinor, Elizabeth PilarThe voices of Cape Verdean migrant student mothers in Portugal are examined in the light of Archer’s (2003) theory on the ‘inner dialogue’. The article frames the mothers as complex social actors who respond to the uncertainties surrounding unplanned pregnancy through self-reflection and dialogue with and about the world, turning the disorientation of unexpected motherhood into a meaningful project. The analysi...
Caught between changing tides: Gender and kinship in Cape Verde
Challinor, Elizabeth PilarGender ideologies in Cape Verde are shifting. Individuals find themselves caught between changing tides, pushed and pulled in opposite directions by divergent gendered expectations. The article examines the different ways in which young women and men take recourse to tactics in response to the tensions that arise as they deal with changing gender ascriptions in the midst of their relations with community and ki...
Cross-border citizenship: mothering beyond the boundaries of consanguinity and ...
Challinor, Elizabeth PilarThe article examines how encounters in the everyday lives of three Cape Verdean migrant students in northern Portugal triggered acts of citizenship which assisted them in their new roles as mothers, cutting across indifference, solitude and inequality. By experiencing motherhood as an unexpected interruption in their lives, the women simultaneously occupied the subject positions of migrant mothers and of diaspo...
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