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Mobility of mothers with disabled children – a matter of genderdisability intersectionality?
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2020 (English)Report (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

Having mobility constraints in everyday life can negatively affect people’s quality of life and entail social and geographical exclusion. Previous research has shown that women and people with disabilities in general encounter more travel constraints compared to men and non-disabled people, respectively. However, little is known about constraints experienced by women who have disabled children. By using interviews with mothers of wheelchair-using children with cerebral palsy living in Sweden, this paper explores if these mothers’ daily mobilities are affected by gender-disability intersectionality. The paper uses a time-geographical framework, focusing on the competition between different projects in everyday life. The results suggest that these mothers are affected by gendered norms and travel constraints related to their children’s disabilities, which limit their options of transport modes and entail many chauffeuring responsibilities which they experience exceed ‘normal’ transport provision for (non-disabled) children, increasing both the number of trips and distance. Concerning time-geographical projects, these mothers prioritise their children’s mobilities and everyday projects before their own.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Umeå universitet , 2020.
Series
Trafikverkets forskningsportföljer
Keywords [en]
disabled children, employment, gender, mobility, travel, work-family conflict
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Human Geography
Research subject
FOI-portföljer, Planera
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URN: urn:nbn:se:trafikverket:diva-11882Archive number: TRV 2017/19063OAI: oai:DiVA.org:trafikverket-11882DiVA, id: diva2:1747252
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Funktionshindrade barns mobilitet
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Swedish Transport Administration, TRV 2017/19063Available from: 2023-03-30 Created: 2023-03-30Bibliographically approved

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