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In this article, I reflect that 10 years on the study of the maternal continues to offer a critical space in to centre black mothering in the UK. Not only does it provide an analytical lens in which to document and reflect on black women's daily lived encounters, but it also provides a framework in which to assert the validity of black mothers' knowledge. This is particularly necessary for countering cultural messages that seek to deny their knowledge or tell black women that they are inadequate mothers. In the ensuing years, since the publication of my article in the inaugural collection, my research has continued to focus on black mothers, always with the intention to move them from the margins to the centre of maternal studies. Indeed, my central message is unchanging: for black mothers, operating at the intersections of race, class and gender; black women, inhabit and navigate different understanding of motherhood. I similar highlight ways that the practice of Black mothering signifies a political act of resistance against intersecting inequalities.

In this article, I reflect that 10 years on the study of the maternal continues to offer a critical space in to centre black mothering in the UK. Not only does it provide an analytical lens in which to document and reflect on black women's daily lived encounters, but it also provides a framework in which to assert the validity of black mothers' knowledge. This is particularly necessary for countering cultural messages that seek to deny their knowledge or tell black women that they are inadequate mothers. In the ensuing years, since the publication of my article in the inaugural collection, my research has continued to focus on black mothers, always with the intention to move them from the margins to the centre of maternal studies. Indeed, my central message is unchanging: for black mothers, operating at the intersections of race, class and gender; black women, inhabit and navigate different understanding of motherhood. I similar highlight ways that the practice of Black mothering signifies a political act of resistance against intersecting inequalities.

This paper will examine the views and experiences of Black youths living in socially deprived areas of London in order to examine the way in which they recognise the term 'Black neighbourhood' as a resource for ethnic identity formation and collective mobilisation. Despite the apparent problems that are typically associated with 'Black neighbourhoods' for many Black youths, these neighbourhoods also represent urban spaces through which a range of bonding social capital resources are generated including ties of reciprocal trust, solidarity and civic participation. These spaces hold intrinsic value for these young people providing them with a sense of wellbeing and belonging. However, the analysis will also show that the young people's experiences of the neighbourhood are not always positive ones, and such spaces create negative outcomes for Black youths residing there. In particular, the data will highlight the restrictive capacity of 'Black neighbourhoods' and the various ways in which they limit Black youths' opportunities to 'get on' in terms of social mobility and their ability to move beyond neighbourhood boundaries.

Stereotypes show nonresident black fathers as absentee parents. In this article, the author presents a critique of the various ways the literature constructs nonresident black fathers as absent from parenting and family relationships. Drawing on the empirical data collected from two qualitative studies conducted in Britain, this article illustrates that contrary to popular belief, nonresident black fathers are active participants in their children's lives. Social capital is an important conceptual tool in highlighting the networks and resources available to these fathers in their parenting practices. These men's fathering experiences are also informed by cultural and historical factors and intersecting identities of race, ethnicity, class, and gender. The article concludes by making explicit the different ways in which family policy can develop more inclusive strategies to support nonresident black fathers in their paternal role.

Investigates the discrepancy between popular media accounts of the black superwoman in the UK & the sociological reality, drawing on popular press accounts & a variety of empirical data. The black superwoman represents black women as strong, single, independent, central to black family life, ambitious, & successful. It is shown that this figure has circulated widely in the British popular press & has been adopted by both the public & the academic community alike. However, this image has little to do with the reality of black women's lives. Because the image is consturcted in essentialist & reductionist terms, it is particularly harmful to black women, & it deflects attention away from issues of concern to them. Only by discarding such stereotypical imagery can British society begin to produce a more constructive discourse of the black female experience. 35 References. D. Ryfe

This themed issue explores the caring, cultural and emotional labour of migrant mothers in raising their children, highlighting the ways in which their mothering and family practices contribute to creating future citizens in contemporary societies, increasingly characterised by ethnic, racial, religious, cultural and social diversity. A key objective of the themed issue is to probe into the practices, processes and structures shaping migrant mothers' 'kin work', while recognising the family as a site of internal and societal contestation. Kin work highlights the importance of women's culture and care work that takes places across public and private boundaries (di Leonardo, 1984), and also the way in which the link between 'race', racialisation and motherhood encourages particular kinds of mothering practices. The themed issue is multidisciplinary, combining cutting-edge work by leading and early-career researchers. The collection of articles originally emerged out of an Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Network, 'Migrant mothers caring for the future' (2013–15) (www.open.ac.uk/ccig/research/projects/migrant-mothers-caring-for-the-future).

AbstractIn this article, we develop the concept of 'transnational family habitus' as a theoretical tool for making sense of the ways in which children and young people from a migrant background are 'doing families' transnationally. Drawing on over a decade of cumulative research on Caribbean and Italian families in the UK, as well as on a new joint research project, we first investigate the opportunities and consequences of a transnational family habitus on family arrangements, kinship relationships and identity within a transnational context. Second, we analyse the role of these young people's structural location in Britain in shaping the boundaries of their transnational family habitus. We argue that one should see a transnational family habitus as an asset that can potentially disrupt conventional understandings of belonging and processes of inclusion and exclusion. However, we also detail how social divisions of class, race, and increasingly migration status, shape such a habitus.

Racialized migrant mothers are often cast as marginal to theoretical and political debates of citizenship, yet by taking seriously the contributions to cultural and caring citizenship they make, we challenge the racialized boundaries of citizenship. Drawing on theories of enacting citizenship, i.e. challenging hegemonic narratives of who can legitimately claim to contribute to citizenship, we explore migrant women's mothering through participatory theatre methods. Through analysis of participatory action research (PAR) with migrant mothers in London, we emphasise the significance of embodied and affective meanings for challenging racialized citizenship. The theatre methods allow participants to develop collective subjugated knowledges challenging racialized, gendered and classed stratifications of rights, burdens and privileges of caring citizenship. This draws attention to the important role of creativity of the self as an aspect of both cultural and care work for understanding racialized migrant mothers' citizenship.