Caring subjects: migrant women and the third sector in England and Scotland

Abstract

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Austerity and the Politics of Becoming

“…The economic crisis has been a slow‐moving disaster for women of colour which they experience largely outside the public eye. As we have documented in great detail elsewhere (Bassel and Emejulu, , ; Emejulu and Bassel, , , ;) women of colour are impacted by the crisis and austerity measures both discursively and materially. Firstly, women of colour largely disappear in accounts of the crisis and austerity.…”

“…Care acts both as a barrier to public space and as the fulcrum for a new public politics (Bassel and Emejulu, ; Erel, ; Lister, ). In the process of becoming British citizens, migrant women of colour face a vortex of conflicting demands (Bassel and Khan, in progress; Bassel, ).…”

“…Care creates unexpected political possibilities for women of colour. To only view care as a barrier to public space and to collective action is to misunderstand the complex ways in which care operates to simultaneously close down and open up opportunities for activism (Bassel and Emejulu, ). In mapping women's of colour's activism against austerity, against the far right and for migrants’ rights in London, we find that care is the crucial social relationship that guides many women's activism and is an important dynamic for building solidarity for collective action.…”

Invoking vulnerability: practitioner attitudes to supporting refugee and migrant women in London-based third sector organisations

“…TSOs are also being encouraged to develop their own income generating activities. Leah Bassel and Akwugo Emejulu (2018) highlight that when it comes to women's organisations, these are dominated by highly gendered schemes, such as community cafes, crèches and sewing groups.…”

Women as Sectarian Agents: Looking Beyond the Football Cliché in Scotland

“…This problem of seeing women as sectarian agents might be because the private and semi-private spaces of family and community – with which women are still identified – are still not recognised and valued as sites for political struggles. Thus to define women as sectarian agents requires the politicisation of care work and the need to see mothering and motherhood as a public politics which shapes both private and public space (Bassel and Emejulu, 2017; Erel, 2011; Naples, 1992).…”