Singular life stories, shared experiences: single mothers in Brazil, France and Japan from the point of view of race/ethnicity/nationality, class and age

• Autor(a) principal: Santos, Yumi Garcia dos
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Estudos de Sociologia
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.fclar.unesp.br/estudos/article/view/4933
• topic: Stigma; Moral career; Single mothers; Race/ethnicity/nationality; Poverty; Age; Estigma; Carreira moral; Mulher chefe de família monoparental; Raça/etnia/nacionalidade; Pobreza; Idade

This article investigates the “moral career” of three single mothers that are part of the ethnic and racial minority – an object of stigma – in Brazil, France and Japan. Kika, a 55 year-old Brazilian, is a resident of the outskirts of São Paulo; Samantha, a French woman of 42, is originally from Martinique; and Rosa, 47, a Philippino immigrant in Japan. Although living in contrasting societies from the socioeconomic and cultural viewpoints, we may identify more similarities than differences in the formation of the social identity of these women, who share experiences of discrimination based on class, gender and race/ethnicity/nationality, obstacles to their access to steady employment and whose consequence is poverty, which becomes worse with advancing age.