Maternity for homeless African women by Elodie Panaccione
Elodie Panaccione
2010 winner: Maternity for transhumant migrant women: a study of maternal representations among homeless African women
Elodie Panaccione, a psychologist, has worked as a social worker at the Temporary Housing Aid department of the Association Lafayette Accueil in Paris since May 2007.
Within this framework, her main tasks are as follows:
- helping parents to put their plans for living into practice,
- supporting their relations with their children,
- setting up a cultural awareness workshop.
In parallel, she is currently in the third year of a cross-cultural clinical psychology doctorate at Paris V University on the subject of “Maternity for homeless African women”.
