6 Şubat Kahramanmaraş Depremi Sonrasında Popüler Olan Koruyucu Ailelikte Kadının Görünmeyen Emeği
The Invisible Labour of Women in Foster Care Which Became Popular After The February 6 Kahramanmaraş Earthquake

Author(s): Ayşe Betül Tanrıverdi
Subject(s): Gender Studies, Labor relations
Published by: Transnational Press London
Keywords: Foster care; children; women’s labour; media;
Summary/Abstract: After the 6 February Kahramanmaraş earthquake, interest and applications for foster care increased. With this increase in interest, the public acted emotionally and the compassion vein came to the fore. After the earthquake, foster family was misunderstood by the public and therefore there was a great increase in applications. It remains a mystery as to why many people who applied to become foster parents for earthquake victims applied and to what extent they have knowledge about the nature of foster care. In foster care, the woman becomes the object who takes care of the child. The child is commodified by the media and after all the processes are completed, the child is mostly taken care of by the woman and the responsibility is assumed by the woman. The woman takes care of the physical and emotional care of the child; she also makes the child the centre of her life with the anxiety caused by the control mechanism. Such a responsibility negatively affects the woman’s private life; her career plan is only the future of the child. Although raising children is a sacred endeavour, the fact that it is socially seen as a woman’s duty brings along a number of problems. In foster care, women come to the forefront; this situation brings emotional labour exploitation for women. In this study, it is tried to understand why many families who want to become a foster family for earthquake victims after the earthquake on 6 February applied, what they aim for, and the invisible labour of women in foster care are tried to be understood from internet newspaper news and comments made on social media accounts. The sample of the research is the news with the keyword “foster family” published in online newspapers between February-December 2023 and the posts on the official page of the Ministry of Family and Social Services. The sample of the study is limited to the year 2023 because the subject of the study is to investigate the increasing popularity after the 6 February Kahramanmaraş earthquake. In the study, content analysis technique is used by using qualitative research method. In content analysis through coding, important parts are described and interpreted.

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