Saudi Arabia

Al-Dabbagh, May; GARGANI, GHALIA

doi:10.2307/j.ctt1pk860c.22

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“…UAE families, specifically local mothers, form a vital part of the national state discourse and agenda on the implementation of national service as a national building objective (Sabban, 2018). Al‐Dabbagh and Gargani, 2018:285) acknowledges that the “state defines family as a basic unity of society, women as reproducers of traditional values…and families are constructed as intermediaries between women and the state.” While some UAE mothers have initially resisted the state promulgation and its governing legal mandates, others have increasingly advocated for it, citing state and political responsibilities, fidelity, loyalty, and allegiance to the state and the nation. Typologies of motherhood have also identified throughout my fieldwork, offering a multilevel lens for understanding the roles and perspectives of UAE mothers in the national service program.…”

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“…Furthermore, motherhood is also a vital lens in understanding mainstream UAE and Arab society because national mothers act as the nation builders and carriers of the new generation, as well as the symbolic “conduit” to the state in the context of Islamic culture and traditions (Sabban, 2018; Al‐Dabbagh and Gargani, 2018; Joseph, 2018). In Islam, for example, teaching of motherhood is central to Islamic teaching, and a motherhood teaching becomes a powerful tool in building identity, self‐conceptualization, and loyalty to the state and society.…”

Section: Theorizing National Mothers and The Statementioning

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“The Debt of Gratitude”: Mobilizing “Motherhood” in Times of Unrest in the United Arab Emirates

Sabban

2020

Social Science Quarterly

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Objective The objective of this study is to examine the framework of "motherhood" and gender identity politics in the context of growing nationalist state projects rooted in the UAE national service discourse. While the Western scholarship has extensively examined the concept of motherhood, little empirical studies have focused on the complex linkages between motherhood, state, and national service, particularly in non‐Western contexts such as the UAE. Methods The method was an in‐depth field interviews with national mothers. National mothers have increasingly emerged as the new ideological “objects” of the state‐led nationalist campaign to promote national military service in the UAE. The study further dissects the spatial boundaries of, and the complex relationships between motherhood and state, while simultaneously highlighting vignette of gendered narratives of various local UAE national mothers, and how they micro‐view, sacrifice, cope, and respond to the ongoing state project. Results The results show how UAE national service has shaped the daily lives and sense of belonging of UAE national mothers, their acceptance of the changes National service has brought to their families. A “debt of gratitude” is a catalyst of their attitude to a state which represents their interpretation and understanding of what they foresee as the UAE state's act of “disciplining and governmentality” in times of ongoing unrest in the broader Middle East region. Conclusion In conclusion, UAE mothers aligned their adaptation to a new disrupted change and family relationships.

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Section: Analyzing Motherhoodmentioning

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Section: Theorizing National Mothers and The Statementioning

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“The Debt of Gratitude”: Mobilizing “Motherhood” in Times of Unrest in the United Arab Emirates

Sabban

2020

Social Science Quarterly

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Serial migrant mothers and permanent temporariness in Dubai

Al-Dabbagh

2022

Migration Studies

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Based on a five-year urban ethnography, this article explores the subjectivities of permanent temporariness that characterize the experience of serial migrant mothers in Dubai. By going beyond approaches that select middle class participants based on fixed category classifications such as ethnicity or citizenship, this article uses a processual lens and sheds light on a sociologically unmarked category of migrants in the city whose experiences of mothering and work have been shaped by shifting intersectionality in the context of multinational migration. Through detailed biographies of four serial migrants, this article offers an illustration of the subjectivities of permanent temporariness and shows how they are reproduced through three mothering practices: propagating roots, reflexive selving, and normalizing movement. Examining serial migrant motherhood practices challenges methodological nationalism and illustrates how the flow and friction of multinational migration gets reconstituted into family and work lives.

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Saudi Arabia

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“The Debt of Gratitude”: Mobilizing “Motherhood” in Times of Unrest in the United Arab Emirates

“The Debt of Gratitude”: Mobilizing “Motherhood” in Times of Unrest in the United Arab Emirates

Serial migrant mothers and permanent temporariness in Dubai

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