Redefining State, Statelessness and Motherhood at the Margins

This ethnographic project proposes a reconfiguration of the transnational politics of migration by privileging the narratives and perspectives of refugee mothers on the margins of modern states. Bringing together literature from migration studies, feminist political economy, critical security studies, and postcolonial thought, I ask: How do the everyday practices of motherhood negotiate, reconstitute and disrupt the categories of state, statelessness, and motherhood among refugees?