The Violence of Everyday Struggles

Examines the daily struggles of migrantized divorced mothers in Germany in a framework of everyday violence and its (in)visibilities, focusing on their resistances and vulnerabilities within unequal relations of support

Through the individual narratives of divorced mothers living in Germany with immigration biographies from Turkey, this book approaches their daily struggles by analyzing the theories, discourses, and (in)visibilities of everyday violence.

This book approaches the daily struggles of migrantized divorced motherhood through theories, discourses, and (in)visibilities of everyday violence. Analyzing the individual narratives of divorced mothers living in Germany with immigration biographies from Turkey, it tackles their struggles with poverty, dequalification, maternal guilt, time constraints, care, everyday racism and sexism, as well as the conceptualizations of violence itself. With attention to various forms of victimizations, vulnerabilities, and resistances, it delves into the relational self of “lone” motherhood to the resources of intimate and structural support, and the everyday protests embedded in these relations.