In many communities of origin for female migrants there is widespread criticism in the media and popular discourse of mothers who leave behind children and enjoy the good life abroad, with claims that female migration happens at the cost of family and children.
Due to the stigma produced by this discourse, female migrants who are also mothers often prefer to speak of their decision to migrate as an act of sacrifice. Showing the use of and the relationship between different narratives of female migration in Western Ukraine, Tyldum challenges some of the assumptions of the care drain perspective. The article is published in
Sociology, December 2014. *
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