Sul tempo delle madri forzate: tattiche e aspirazioni

In the contemporary Italian scenario characterized by increasingly strict visa and asylum policies and a proliferation of “borders regimes”, however, mothers with 0-3-year-old children are still considered a vulnerable group. How does the categorization of vulnerable groups – targeted and reframed by policies, public discourses and institutional norms – allow social scientists to observe the production of subjectivity? How are time, space and mobility tactics lived and represented by migrant mothers of very young children born during the migratory journey? In this paper focusing on the biographies of women I have defined as forced mothers I will explore daily tactics, social networks, and personal aspirations to show how mobility processes entail multiple –institutional and biographical, temporalities.