Suchergebnisse

Este artículo presenta una reflexión metodológica basada en investigación empírica sobre el tema de la violencia de género desde el enfoque cualitativo. Expone las características y los alcances de dos técnicas de producción y análisis de datos –la entrevista narrativa y el grupo de discusión– a la luz de dos investigaciones recientes sobre violencia de pareja en México. Ambas perspectivas de análisis son procedimientos metodológicos reconstructivos que se rigen por el principio de la apertura, para que los propios individuos estructuren sus experiencias y significados de acuerdo con sus propios criterios de relevancia. El artículo ilustra el modo en que desde la lógica inductiva la investigación cualitativa puede alcanzar resultados generalizables y de ese modo trascender la perspectiva subjetiva y la singularidad del caso único, en la definición de categorías y en la formación de tipos.

This study examines the role of fatherhood for incarcerated men in Mexico, based on repeated life-story interviews with twelve men. We distinguish between their descriptions of fatherhood in the past and present and how they imagine the future, and explore how fathers describe their relationship with their children. The incarcerated men idealize the past with their children or tell stories of how they have changed from being "bad" to "good" fathers. They emphasize how they are still able to protect and educate their children from prison, reflecting widespread values of fatherhood. They admit that fathering while incarcerated is difficult and hope that things will be better in the future. In line with previous research on fathers in prison, we argue that storytelling of being "good fathers" is a way of projecting "normalcy", using one of the few gendered resources available, and is an escape from the harsh realities of prison life. Following insights from narrative criminology and desistance studies, we further argue that their stories of fatherhood can be a resource for reintegration into society. Finally, we suggest that inmates' emphasis on involved fatherhood might reflect diffusing narratives, ideals, and norms of parenting.

This study examines the mothering practices and identities of incarcerated women in Mexico. Data gathered from repeated life-story interviews with 12 women, were analyzed to describe mothering practices in the different phases of incarcerated women's' lives. We argue that knowledge of the Latin American context is crucial to understand their experiences of motherhood. In a society based on familism and marianismo identities that suffers from a lack of welfare institutions, motherhood provided a way for socially and economically excluded women to escape destructive family environments and gain autonomy. Motherhood also provided a way to cope with the stigma of delinquency. Using the framework of Southern Criminology, we explore the importance of marginalized motherhood in this tradition. The results reveal the tragic paradox of motherhood for incarcerated women and the importance of studying marginalized mothering beyond the Global North.