Summary

Migration is nowadays a worldwide largely explored subject in researches. Disability and gender studies become as well huge interest from researchers. But the intersection of these three social identities has been too rare explored. Motivated from my personal experience as a migrant mother from a disabled child and observations as an activist in the social movement from parents with children with disability in Germany, I researching for my PhD about these realities and will bring to the participants of the workshop partial results from my thesis: How do migrant mothers with disabled child live in Germany, and how do they interact with the social system? Can social media and its communities of care offer a place for exchange and empowerment due to the marginalized situation in which many migrant families with disabled children live? Up to where can these channels reach?  In my workshop, I will present the data from three of the mothers from my PhD research. They have differences in their biographies and strategies in their all day life in the interaction with different actors from social system, but also many similarities and can offer a richness of information in the task to understand the complexity of their realities. In this workshop the participants will understand why the online spaces are so important for my sample, but it will also be clear that without rethinking the responsibility from many actors from system – public, private and from the organized society - on offering professional care structures for these families, they cannot experience care as a synonym of social justice and respect to their diversities. 

Keywords (separate with commas)

disabled child, motherhood, migration, social media, network, care studies, critical disability studies, gender studies, Germany, social work, social justice, public policy, interculturality