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Digital Motherhood in Flux: Skilled Immigrant Women's Narratives of Place, Resilience, and Advocacy in North America
Abstract
This chapter explores how skilled immigrant mothers from the Global South in North America utilise digital platforms to overcome systemic barriers, process trauma, and advocate for equity. An intersectional analysis reveals that their identities intensify challenges such as credential devaluation, underemployment, and cultural dissonance. Through case studies and digital ethnography, the chapter introduces the concept of narrative resilience, highlighting therapeutic storytelling via blogs, social media, and encrypted parenting forums that reshape fragmented migration experiences into cohesive survival narratives. The findings demonstrate algorithmic aikido, where mothers counteract platform biases through hashtag campaigns and hybrid professional-caregiving content. The analysis advances virtual place-making as a survival strategy, merging cultural preservation from their homelands with integration in their host countries. Policy recommendations include trauma-informed digital credentialing systems and AI hiring reforms.
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