BORDERLINE CARE AND POLITICS: THE EVERYDAY EXPERIENCES OF WORKING MOTHERS IN BORDER COMMUNITIES DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC
| dc.contributor.advisor | Quinlan, Elizabeth | |
| dc.contributor.committeeMember | Somerville, Kara | |
| dc.contributor.committeeMember | Racine, Louise | |
| dc.contributor.committeeMember | Cheng, Hongming | |
| dc.creator | Montoya-Gajadhar, Crystal | |
| dc.creator.orcid | 0009-0008-8838-1405 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-05-28T19:14:24Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-05-28T19:14:24Z | |
| dc.date.copyright | 2024 | |
| dc.date.created | 2024-06 | |
| dc.date.issued | 2024-01-15 | |
| dc.date.submitted | June 2024 | |
| dc.date.updated | 2024-05-28T19:14:24Z | |
| dc.description.abstract | The COVID-19 pandemic caused widespread disruption to people as they tried to navigate the uncertain and ambiguous public health approaches of governing institutions. Conflicting guidelines made it challenging to comply with public health practices, as they were often developed with a single institutional entry point in mind rather than for parents and caregivers navigating complex and interrelated institutional recommendations and restrictions for more than themselves. This thesis explores how working mothers adapted to modifications in institutional care support as socially constructed during the pandemic. Institutional Ethnography (IE) was employed to generate qualitative data on the lived experience of working mothers during the pandemic. IE helps identify the ruling relations in institutional practices such as emergency management. This study analyzes the impact of emergency management on women's workforce participation during crises. It examines historical and legislative frameworks and includes interviews with working mothers from cross-border communities of Ottawa and Gatineau, and Windsor and Detroit to understand their experiences. This thesis broadly concludes with the aim to shed light on how individuals changed during the dynamics of the pandemic. It highlights the emotional labour output of working mothers who had to juggle the demands of their jobs with the added responsibilities of caring for their families. This output led to exhaustion and burnout, both personally and professionally. Working mothers could produce this work with innovation by reconciling the tensions of the first and second shifts with a third shift to coordinate the tensions between the first and second shifts. To better understand working mothers' challenges, policymakers and legislators must acknowledge their responsibilities and develop frameworks that provide support. Modernized institutional frameworks will help to take in consideration the social and economic risks so to not perpetuate unintended negative consequences on the labour force. | |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10388/15715 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.subject | Working in a crisis | |
| dc.subject | pandemic | |
| dc.subject | working mother(s) | |
| dc.subject | care | |
| dc.subject | caregiving | |
| dc.subject | mother | |
| dc.subject | ethnography | |
| dc.subject | cross border | |
| dc.subject | mobility | |
| dc.subject | Emergency Act | |
| dc.title | BORDERLINE CARE AND POLITICS: THE EVERYDAY EXPERIENCES OF WORKING MOTHERS IN BORDER COMMUNITIES DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC | |
| dc.type | Thesis | |
| dc.type.material | text | |
| thesis.degree.department | Sociology | |
| thesis.degree.discipline | Sociology | |
| thesis.degree.grantor | University of Saskatchewan | |
| thesis.degree.level | Masters | |
| thesis.degree.name | Master of Arts (M.A.) |