Series | Diaspore
Review | Symbologies and Writings in Transit
Chapter | Para se fazer (no) presente
Para se fazer (no) presente
O exercício da maternidade e a construção da pessoa entre estrangeiras presas em São Paulo
Abstract
This article is a reflection on motherhood and person-building among foreign female detainees in Penitenciária Feminina da Capital (the Capital Female Penitentiary in São Paulo). Detained far from their respective social environments and isolated behind prison walls by policies that keep them there, foreign women are subjected to numerous limitations that jeopardize their relationship with their children and other family members outside the walls. My fieldwork, done by working with two civil human rights organizations, questions prison isolation and reveals the various ways these women pass through prison walls and maintain ties with their relatives. Using an anthropological approach in this article, I intend to show how a series of relationships is established around motherhood through photographs, emails, and letters. I argue that the exchange of such things is essential for both family relationships and the constitution of the (person) foreign women, allowing them to create co-presences, negotiate maternal arrangements that go beyond the mother-child binomial, and challenge the temporal-spatial borders of incarceration in a foreign country.
Language: it
Keywords Foreign female detainees • Production of co-presence • Transnational prison motherhood • Person-building
Copyright © 2016 Bruna Buchamar. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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