Bassel, Leah and Emejulu, Akwugo (2018) Caring subjects : migrant women and the third sector in England and Scotland. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 41 (1). pp. 36-54. doi:10.1080/01419870.2017.1334930 ISSN 0141-9870.

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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.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor
Divisions:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Sociology
SWORD Depositor:	Library Publications Router
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH):	Women foreign workers -- Scotland, Women foreign workers -- England, Great Britain -- Economic conditions -- 21st century, Welfare economics -- Great Britain -- 21st century
Journal or Publication Title:	Ethnic and Racial Studies
Publisher:	Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd.
ISSN:	0141-9870
Official Date:	1 January 2018
Dates:	Date Event 1 January 2018 Published 20 June 2017 Available 1 March 2017 Accepted 27 February 2016 Submitted
Volume:	41
Number:	1
Page Range:	pp. 36-54
DOI:	10.1080/01419870.2017.1334930
Status:	Peer Reviewed
Publication Status:	Published
Access rights to Published version:	Restricted or Subscription Access
Date of first compliant deposit:	14 February 2018
Date of first compliant Open Access:	14 February 2018
RIOXX Funder/Project Grant:	Project/Grant ID RIOXX Funder Name Funder ID SG112539 British Academy http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000286 UNSPECIFIED University of Leicester http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000738 UNSPECIFIED University Of Edinburgh http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000848
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