Transnational Mothers from Romania
Transnational Mothers from Romania

Summary/Abstract: This work presents the strategies of transnational motherhood that migrant mothers from Romania employ in relation with their children. These women need to confront a defamatory discourse that accuses them of abandoning their children, at the macro level (society), but also at the meso level (community) and the micro one (family). Through the transfer of care, educational support, redefinition of motherhood and transnational relationships, these women succeed in fulfilling their role as mothers. The work proposes two theoretical models for understanding the exercise of transnational motherhood: the model of care in transnational motherhood and the model of functioning of transnational motherhood, through emphasizing the need for displaying transnational families. From a methodological viewpoint, this work is a feminist qualitative research, at which 37 subjects have participated (transnational family members and key persons) from six rural transnational communities.

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