Experience of Mothers and Fathers: Adults Looking Back on Serial Migration, Language Brokering and Visible Difference

Key information

Date
Time
5:00 pm to 6:30 pm
Venue
Russell Square: College Buildings
Room
G52

About this event

Professor Ann Phoenix

In recent years, it has become commonplace to recognise that processes of migration are gendered and, where children are involved, that mothers and fathers often have different roles and responsibilities in ‘global care chains’. This talk uses narrative accounts from a study of adults looking back on ‘non-normative’ childhood experiences to examine the ways in which women and men remember the part their mothers and fathers played. It will use examples from adults who: were ‘serial migrants’ from the Caribbean, rejoining their parents after a period of separation; grew up in households which were visibly ethnically different and who were language brokers, interpreting and translating for their parents.

Bio

Ann Phoenix is Co-Director of the Thomas Coram Research Unit, Institute of Education, University of London. Her research is mainly about social identities and the links between psychological experiences and social processes. She is currently conducting a programme of research on ‘Transforming experiences: Re-conceptualising identities and ‘non-normative’ childhoods’ as an ESRC Professorial Fellow. Her books include: Black, White or Mixed Race? (1993/2002 with Barbara Tizard), Routledge; Young Masculinities (2002, with Stephen Frosh and Rob Pattman), Palgrave and Parenting and Ethnicity (2007 with Fatima Husain from FPI), JRF.

Organiser: Bloomsbury Gender Network and the Centre for Gender Studies (SOAS)

Contact email: N.S.Al-Ali@soas.ac.uk