Bassel, L. and Emejulu, A. (2018) Caring subjects: migrant women and the third sector in England and Scotland. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 41 (1). pp. 36-54. ISSN 0141-9870
Abstract
We situate racialized migrant mothers as political actors in the landscape of austerity in England and Scotland. We explore the possibilities of a politics around caring work. We ask: What “caring subjects” are possible, under austerity? A “politics of care” can challenge the dichotomy between private caring and public citizenship practices. However, we argue that the shift from a “culture of care” to a “culture of cuts” poses significant challenges to this politics in third sector spaces, particularly when processes of racialization are brought to the fore. We move beyond “reductionist economism” to explore how the current economic crisis is also one of social relations. The re-privatization of caring and reproductive work generates new forms of subjectivity and social reproduction. Within the supposed “monolith” of neoliberalism, a multiplicity of subjectivities are engendered which open some spaces for resistance and subversion.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an author-produced version of a paper subsequently published in Ethnic and Racial Studies. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Migrant women; austerity; racialization; England; Scotland |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Department of Sociological Studies (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 15 Mar 2024 11:13 |
Last Modified: | 15 Mar 2024 11:13 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Informa UK Limited |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/01419870.2017.1334930 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:210312 |