A Year with Mothers and Daughters Negotiating (migrant) reproduction, mothering and emotional belonging in Switzerland

The project is part of the SNF-funded research project “Inherited Futures? Objects, Time, Knowledge” led by PD Dr. Lorena Rizzo and Prof. Dr. George-Paul Meiu. It investigates affective landscapes, memories and desires of mothers and daughters with mobile biographies in Switzerland. The focus is on the legacies and continuities in Swiss political anxieties over migrant reproduction and mothering and their impact on emotional belonging (or non-belonging). Sound mapping and a collage of memories and soundscapes will contribute to the sensory dimension and the ethnography’s collaborative, multimodal nature. The research design and methodology emphasise an engaged, gentle and participatory approach.