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Mission and Cosmopolitan Mothering : Saving Armenian Mothers and Orphans, 1902-1947

Småberg, Maria LU (2017) In Social Sciences and Missions 30(1-2). p.44-73
Abstract
This article discusses and analyzes mothering that crosses boundaries of care in spite of differences of nationality, culture and religion. Swedish missionary Alma Johansson was one of a remarkable number of women missionaries who volunteered as relief workers during the Armenian refugee crisis. These women missionaries were often seen as mothers who were ‘saving a whole generation’. The article shows how Johansson acted as an external mother and created transnational bonds of solidarity between Swedish and Armenian mothers. The close relationships became a foundation for Armenian children and women to help themselves. However, in this mothering were also ambivalences.
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humanitarianism, transnationalisme, mothering, maternage, cosmopolitanism, cosmopolitisme, genre, humanitarisme, génocide arménien, Armenian Genocide, gender, transnationalism
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Social Sciences and Missions
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30
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1-2
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30 pages
publisher
Brill
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  • scopus:85016937570
  • wos:000399013300004
ISSN
1874-8937
DOI
10.1163/18748945-03001007
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English
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  title        = {{Mission and Cosmopolitan Mothering : Saving Armenian Mothers and Orphans, 1902-1947}},
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