This article discusses and analyzes mothering that crosses boundaries of care in spite of differences of nationality, culture and religion. Swedish missionary Alma Johansson was one of a remarkable number of women missionaries who volunteered as relief workers during the Armenian refugee crisis. These women missionaries were often seen as mothers who were 'saving a whole generation'. The article shows how Johansson acted as an external mother and created transnational bonds of solidarity between Swedish and Armenian mothers. The close relationships became a foundation for Armenian children and women to help themselves. However, in this mothering were also ambivalences. This article discusses and analyzes mothering that crosses boundaries of care in spite of differences of nationality, culture and religion. Swedish missionary Alma Johansson was one of a remarkable number of women missionaries who volunteered as relief workers during the Armenian refugee crisis. These women missionaries were often seen as mothers who were 'saving a whole generation'. The article shows how Johansson acted as an external mother and created transnational bonds of solidarity between Swedish and Armenian mothers. The close relationships became a foundation for Armenian children and women to help themselves. However, in this mothering were also ambivalences. This article discusses and analyzes mothering that crosses boundaries of care in spite of differences of nationality, culture and religion. Swedish missionary Alma Johansson was one of a remarkable number of women missionaries who volunteered as relief workers during the Armenian refugee crisis. These women missionaries were often seen as mothers who were 'saving a whole generation'. The article shows how Johansson acted as an external mother and created transnational bonds of solidarity between Swedish and Armenian mothers. The close relationships became a foundation for Armenian children and women to help themselves. However, in this mothering were also ambivalences. This article discusses and analyzes mothering that crosses boundaries of care in spite of differences of nationality, culture and religion. Swedish missionary Alma Johansson was one of a remarkable number of women missionaries who volunteered as relief workers during the Armenian refugee crisis. These women missionaries were often seen as mothers who were 'saving a whole generation'. The article shows how Johansson acted as an external mother and created transnational bonds of solidarity between Swedish and Armenian mothers. The close relationships became a foundation for Armenian children and women to help themselves. However, in this mothering were also ambivalences.
مجموعه
تاريخ نشر
2017
توصيف ظاهري
44-73
عنوان
Social Sciences and Missions
شماره جلد
30/1-2
شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها
1874-8945
اصطلاحهای موضوعی کنترل نشده
اصطلاح موضوعی
Armenian Genocide
اصطلاح موضوعی
cosmopolitanism
اصطلاح موضوعی
cosmopolitisme
اصطلاح موضوعی
gender
اصطلاح موضوعی
génocide arménien
اصطلاح موضوعی
genre
اصطلاح موضوعی
humanitarianism
اصطلاح موضوعی
humanitarisme
اصطلاح موضوعی
maternage
اصطلاح موضوعی
mothering
اصطلاح موضوعی
transnationalisme
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