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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.
Recommended Citation
Isaw, Poinsettia, "I Am My Mother’s Daughter: Migration, Motherhood, and Labor" (2025). Honors Theses. 1828.
https://scholarship.richmond.edu/honors-theses/1828