They were chasing me down the streets’: Austerity, resourcefulness, and the tenacity of migrant women's care-full labour

Taulant Guma; Stephen Drinkwater; Rhys Dafydd Jones

doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2023.103822

They were chasing me down the streets’: Austerity, resourcefulness, and the tenacity of migrant women's care-full labour

Taulant Guma, Stephen Drinkwater, Rhys Dafydd Jones

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In this paper, we examine the role of migrant women in civil society in Wales in a triply-hostile environment created by UK government policy since 2010. Drawing on interviews carried out with EU migrants between 2016 and 2017, we outline the active support and care work provided by these women to migrants and others and the way in which they navigated austere and hostile conditions (contrasting the popular construction of migrants passively requiring support and care). Contributing to the literature on resourcefulness, we introduce the notion of tenacity to highlight the exhausting care-full labour of these migrants, who continue despite challenging circumstances and impact on their own wellbeing. We conclude that the care work provided by these women plays an important civil society role in tackling ongoing austerity and hostility but that precarious conditions bring a lack of sustainability which can heighten the socio-spatial inequalities seen across the UK.

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Migrants, minorities and engagement in local civil society 2016-2017
Drinkwater, S., Guma, T. & Jones, R. D., UK Data Service, 22 Ion 2020
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Woods, M. (Prif Ymchwilydd)
Economic and Social Research Council
01 Hyd 2019 → 30 Medi 2024
Prosiect: Ymchwil a ariannwyd yn allanol
WISERD Civil Society: Changing perspectives on Civic Stratification and Civil Repair - interpol
Royles, E. (Prif Ymchwilydd)
Economic and Social Research Council
01 Hyd 2019 → 30 Medi 2024
Prosiect: Ymchwil a ariannwyd yn allanol
WISERD Civil Society: Interpol (led by project 11438)
Jones, I. R. (Prif Ymchwilydd), Murphy, P. D. (Prif Ymchwilydd), O'Hanlon, F. (Prif Ymchwilydd), Royles, E. (Prif Ymchwilydd), Anderson, J. (Cyd-ymchwilydd), Blackaby, D. (Cyd-ymchwilydd), Bryson, A. (Cyd-ymchwilydd), Chaney, P. (Cyd-ymchwilydd), Cole, A. M. (Cyd-ymchwilydd), Davies, R. (Cyd-ymchwilydd), Davis, H. (Cyd-ymchwilydd), Drinkwater, S. (Cyd-ymchwilydd), Feilzer, M. (Cyd-ymchwilydd), Green, A. (Cyd-ymchwilydd), Heley, J. (Cyd-ymchwilydd), Higgs, G. (Cyd-ymchwilydd), Hyde, M. (Cyd-ymchwilydd), Johns, N. (Cyd-ymchwilydd), Jones, R. (Cyd-ymchwilydd), Jones, R. D. (Cyd-ymchwilydd), Jones, M. (Cyd-ymchwilydd), Jones, M. (Cyd-ymchwilydd), Langford, M. (Cyd-ymchwilydd), Mann, R. (Cyd-ymchwilydd), McVie, S. (Cyd-ymchwilydd), Milbourne, P. (Cyd-ymchwilydd), Moles, K. (Cyd-ymchwilydd), Orford, S. (Cyd-ymchwilydd), Paterson, L. (Cyd-ymchwilydd), Power, S. A. (Cyd-ymchwilydd), Ress, G. (Cyd-ymchwilydd), Roberts, G. (Cyd-ymchwilydd), Robinson, C. (Cyd-ymchwilydd), Taylor, C. M. (Cyd-ymchwilydd), Thompson, A. (Cyd-ymchwilydd), Wincott, D. (Cyd-ymchwilydd), Woods, M. (Cyd-ymchwilydd), Jones, L. (Ymchwilydd), Stafford , I. (Ymchwilydd) & Staneva, A. (Ymchwilydd)
Economic and Social Research Council
01 Hyd 2014 → 30 Medi 2019
Prosiect: Ymchwil a ariannwyd yn allanol
WISERD/ CivilSociety: Devolution, Social and Economic Change and the Local and Regional Landscapes of Civil Sociey - WISERD 2
Woods, M. (Prif Ymchwilydd)
Economic and Social Research Council
01 Hyd 2014 → 30 Medi 2019
Prosiect: Ymchwil a ariannwyd yn allanol

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They were chasing me down the streets’: Austerity, resourcefulness, and the tenacity of migrant women's care-full labour

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Mynediad at Ddogfen

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Migrants, minorities and engagement in local civil society 2016-2017

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WISERD Civil Society: Changing perspectives on Civic Stratification and Civil Repair - DGES

WISERD Civil Society: Changing perspectives on Civic Stratification and Civil Repair - interpol

WISERD Civil Society: Interpol (led by project 11438)

WISERD/ CivilSociety: Devolution, Social and Economic Change and the Local and Regional Landscapes of Civil Sociey - WISERD 2

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