"I Am My Mother’s Daughter: Migration, Motherhood, and Labor" by Poinsettia Isaw

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Date of Award

5-2025

Document Type

Restricted Thesis: Campus only access

Degree Name

Bachelor of Arts

Department

Anthropology

First Advisor

Dr. Margaret Dorsey

Second Advisor

Dr. Jan French

Abstract

This intimate ethnography involving my mother and grandmother studies the intersection of labor and motherhood across migration. My interviews reveal complicated narratives of labors of care and kinwork. The stories presented by my mother and grandmother show how sacrifice and survival are the results of gendered labor, i.e. mothering; and I offer my personal accounts as a daughter to contextualize how labor is generational.

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