Books by Diana Mata-Codesal
This book takes food parcels as a vehicle for exploring relationships, intimacy, care, consumptio... more This book takes food parcels as a vehicle for exploring relationships, intimacy, care, consumption, exchange, and other fundamental anthropological concerns, examining them in relation to wider transnational spaces. As the contributors to this volume argue, food and its related practices offer a window through which to examine the reconciliation of people’s localised intimate experiences with globalising forces. Their analyses contribute to an embodied and sensorial approach to social change by examining migrants and their families’ experiences of global connectedness through familiar objects and narratives. By bringing in in-depth ethnographic insights from different social and economic contexts, this book widens the understanding of the lived experiences of mobility and goes beyond the divide between origin and destination countries, therefore contributing to new ways of thinking about migration and transnationalism that take into consideration the materiality of global connections and the way such connections are embodied and experienced at the local level.
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Los estudios sobre migraciones llevan muchos años investigando a las personas migrantes. Por el ... more Los estudios sobre migraciones llevan muchos años investigando a las personas migrantes. Por el contrario, las personas que no migran no han recibido la misma atención académica. ¿Por qué quedarse? Es la pregunta que da inicio a la investigación que recoge este libro.
La necesidad de explicar cómo o por qué las personas se mueven, sobre todo cuando este movimiento implica un cambio de residencia, hay largas distancias involucradas o se cruza una frontera internacional, se encuentra en la base de muchas y muy variadas investigaciones sociales. Sin embargo, por qué, cómo o para qué permanecer no han sido preguntas que hayan atraído tanta atención, por cuanto implícitamente permanecer aparece como una opción por defecto que no necesita explicación.
Muy al contrario, como demuestran las historias de vida recogidas en el pequeño pueblo morelense de Zacualpan de Amilpas, permanecer es, en muchas ocasiones, consecuencia de elecciones conscientes que derivan de complejas estrategias de vida. Conseguir quedarse es a veces tan difícil como conseguir migrar. La inmovilidad se convierte en un recurso altamente deseado al que no todas las personas tienen acceso y que con frecuencia obliga a activar estrategias en las que la movilidad (propia o ajena) tiene un papel importante.
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Ethnic and Racial Studies, 2020
This paper analyses differentiation processes between non-native groups in a stigmatized peripher... more This paper analyses differentiation processes between non-native groups in a stigmatized peripheral neighbourhood of Barcelona. Its more established dwellers – internal migrants from the South of Spain – have set in place differentiation processes between them and the more recently arrived international migrants. To substantivize differentiation processes, in a context where race has been largely silent, they appropriate the “civic terminology” that has become popular in the city in the last decade. In the global context of hyper-regulation and increasing privatization of urban public spaces, this group’s discursive strategies, based on the civic/non-civic divide, aim to ensure control over accessible open public space, a resource that is locally scarce. Using the ethnographic example of the tensions around “proper behaviour” in
the area’s main square, the article explores processes of identification and differentiation in a context where autochthony cannot be unproblematically called upon.
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Revista de Dialectología y Tradiciones Populares, 2018
Taking the example of interculturality and immigration management plans for the city of Bar-celon... more Taking the example of interculturality and immigration management plans for the city of Bar-celona, this article critically analyses three ideas considered axiomatic regarding migration and the management of diversity in these political documents, and explores how academic developments are used, adapted or omitted in the matter. First, the article analyses the claim that diversity in the city has increased as a consequence of international migration. Secondly, it examines the notion that cultural diversity has thrown up a new situation that requires management. And finally, it considers the claim that interaction among socio culturally different persons—an element underlying various so-called ‘intercultural’ approaches to managing cultural diversity—is good and has socially positive consequences.
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AIBR Revista de Antropología Iberoamericana, 2018
El simbolismo olfatorio está presente en procesos sociales de clasificación. El olor se utiliza c... more El simbolismo olfatorio está presente en procesos sociales de clasificación. El olor se utiliza como marcaje de subalteridad en los procesos de diferenciación y evitación del inmigrante en la ciudad, un otro inferior que “huele mal”. A partir del ejemplo etnográfico del barrio del Carmel en la ciudad de Barcelona este texto analiza la odoro-socialidad relacionada con la construcción del “cuerpo del inmigrante” en el que confluyen tanto consideraciones de otredad y externalidad como de marginalidad. Estos procesos solo pueden entenderse a la luz de la existencia de relaciones de poder concretas que cristalizan en regímenes de aceptabilidad social específicos. Este artículo muestra cómo la presencia de solo algunos olores se construye como una anomalía molesta en el supuestamente desodorizado entorno urbano de Barcelona, espacio que en realidad ofrece un complejo paisaje olfativo sujeto a lógicas de mercantilización. Reflexionar sobre el papel del olor en los mecanismos de clasificación social nos permite acercarnos de una manera encarnada a los procesos de sociabilidad que tienen lugar en espacios urbanos supuestamente inodoros, así como analizar procesos de corporalización de tensiones entre identidad-alteridad.
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Population, Space and Place, 2018
This paper ethnographically explores particular ways of staying put in a Mexican village that bui... more This paper ethnographically explores particular ways of staying put in a Mexican village that builds upon a myriad of present and past mobilities. By doing so, the research contributes to open the black box of rural immobility. Three broad types of stayers are identified: desired, acquiescent, and involuntary stayers. The ethnographic material supports the explanatory power of breaking down the aspiration phase from the realisation one to understand the (mis)matching between desires and capacities for situations of permanence. The research particularly explores how villagers willing to remain, have managed to stay put in a context of high physical mobility, and how staying villagers perceive the desirability and feasibility of staying put compared with that of migrating. Staying put, similarly to migration, is often part of complex life strategies that involve changing mobility–immobility articulations. In the particular ethnographic context, staying put is ascribed an intrinsic positive value. Migration (whether internal or international) has an instrumental value as the means to be able to remain in the village.
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Crossings: Journal of Migration and Culture, 2017
In rural Mexico, as in many other locations worldwide, women’s mobility is depicted as less natur... more In rural Mexico, as in many other locations worldwide, women’s mobility is depicted as less natural or more problematic than men’s. Simultaneously, women are perceived as less mobile than their male peers. Does this mean that they move less? Where are these images derived from? Using ethnographic data, this paper explores the social construction of (im)mobility in the context of a small village in central Mexico. Mobility and immobility are socially constructed and imbued with different meanings according to gender. Such differences rely on the fact the borders are not equally significant for men and women. Borders become meaningful partly due to the reasons of border crossing, which are, in this ethnographic case, different according to gender.
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Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 2018
In this article we examine the potential of photography as a tool in educational intervention as... more In this article we examine the potential of photography as a tool in educational intervention as well as in critical social research. The project "Walking around with a camera" enabled us to develop a collaboration between institutions dedicated to social transformation through intervention and research, as well as to reflect upon the challenges that this entails. In this interdisciplinary and collaborative project, we utilized photography as a research tool and as a way to empower a group of migrant women in the city of Bilbao, Spain. We explored the different roles of photography in the intersection of action, participation, and research: first, its narrative potential; second, as a trigger for deeper dialogue; third, as a way for these women to share their experiences with a wider audience. Among the findings, we highlight the complex relationship that exists among participating, researching, and intervening through social and educational programs, from an epistemological framework that claims a social purpose for research through alliances beyond the academic world. The co-creation of knowledge and mutual learning that resulted from this process stretches beyond immediate research findings or concrete interventions into the development of long lasting mutual trust that becomes incorporated into everyday practices.
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This article analyses the processes of economic levelling attached to the reception of internatio... more This article analyses the processes of economic levelling attached to the reception of international remittances in rural Ecuador. It contributes to the debate on remittances and inequality by exploring the specific mechanisms through which socio-economic differentiation is neutralized or established in two villages of Andean Ecuador. Remittances do not occur in a socio-economic or cultural vacuum. Instead, they stem from specific economic and socio-cultural configurations, inserting into and changing pre-existing structures. The effect of remittances at the village level is dependent on conditions prior to migration. Remittances do not create previously non-existent differentiations, but economic inequalities prior to migration are reproduced and exacerbated as a result of international migration and financial remittances.
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http://www.jsse.org/index.php/jsse/article/view/1492/1637, 2016
Purpose: The article discusses the meanings of citizenship and citizenship education when formal ... more Purpose: The article discusses the meanings of citizenship and citizenship education when formal citizenship is restricted by exploring the potential of photography education and practice as a tool that promotes the exercise of citizenship in the context of non-formal critical adult education. By doing it, this text aims to enhance our understanding on the ways art education can improve the achievement of the goals of citizenship education.
Method: This article analyses the experience of the collective and collaborative project: “Con la cámara a cuestas: Transformative Looks”, in Bilbao, Spain, with a group of fifteen to twenty migrant women from eight Latin American countries.
Findings: Citizenship as a life-long learning process involving individual as well as collective action leading to the promotion of new shared values for more inclusive communities benefits greatly from the use of artistic expressions such as photography. Because of migrant women’s marginalized position as non-formal-citizens, citizenship as participation effectively becomes a fundamental route of influence in the public sphere. Conceptualizing citizenship as struggle and as a critical learning process opens up possibilities for generating new shared ‘habitus’, where ‘recognition’ can be achieved leading to more inclusive societies.
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Ankulegi-Revista de Antropología Social, 2016
Tomando los estudios sobre migraciones internacionales, este texto formula preguntas que nos perm... more Tomando los estudios sobre migraciones internacionales, este texto formula preguntas que nos permiten pensar de manera crítica cuestiones clave en lo que respecta a la práctica antropológica en " casa " y el encuentro con el/la otro. En el caso concreto de los estudios sobre migraciones y las personas nacidas en otros países, ¿estamos con nuestra práctica antropológica fiscalizando a grupos previamente marcados? Ante la prevalencia de análisis que ponen el énfasis en la diferencia cultural entre el inmigrante y nosotros ¿cómo se ha extendido un concepto clave para la antropología – muchas veces sin diálogo alguno con esta disciplina – como es el de cultura? En lugar de estudiar los procesos de alterización, y sobre todo subalterización, que rigen en nuestra sociedad respecto a las personas nacidas en otros países, ¿estamos desde la práctica antropológica cementándolos y contribuyendo a su invisibilización? Todo ello nos lleva a preguntarnos sobre la posibilidad o deseabilidad de desmigrantizar nuestras investigaciones.
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Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 41(14): 2274-2290, 2015
Immobility is to be complicated as a topic of study in research on human migration. This paper an... more Immobility is to be complicated as a topic of study in research on human migration. This paper analyses different ways of staying put, investigating the motivations, degree of (in)voluntariness and associated narratives, to show how immobility is as complex a research category as mobility. It does so in the context of irregular male migration from a rural location in Andean Ecuador to the USA. This paper also focuses on the interactions between mobility and immobility. Families with migrant and non-migrant members are imbued with and affected by changing mobility–immobility dynamics. This paper explores such dynamics to facilitate the understanding of local sociocultural logic, where mobility and immobility are infused with specific meaning, while placing such dynamics within global regimes of (im)mobility.
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Migraciones Internacionales 8(1): 39-64, 2015
This paper provides a detailed analysis of financial remittances to families in rural Andean Ecua... more This paper provides a detailed analysis of financial remittances to families in rural Andean Ecuador. Five different types of transfers are identified and analyzed:
family maintenance remittances, migrants’ savings, debt repayment, emergency money, and gift money. In each case, the dollars families receive as remittances have various meanings. In order to fully understand migrants’ money transfers to their families, the relationships between senders and receivers, which include mutual—and sometimes diverging—expectations and obligations, need to be taken
into account. These relationships are complex, and shaped by gender, age, and kinship considerations.
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ReMHu-Revista Interdisciplinar da Mobilidade Humana v. 22 n.42: 263-280, 2014
Migration is often aimed to build migrants’ own house in their places of origin. In rural highlan... more Migration is often aimed to build migrants’ own house in their places of origin. In rural highland Ecuador remittances sent from the US are habitually used to build houses which have changed the housing landscape of many villages. This paper describes the housing landscape of a village, Xarbán, and how it has changed over the last fifty years due to migration and remittances. It unpacks the reasons why many of the recently built houses remained empty or inhabited by only one or two people. It particularly explores the impact of migrants’ legal status abroad on their housing decisions and behaviour. Finally, the article looks for positive impacts of these so-called “wasted houses” on migrants, their relatives and non-migrant villagers. Remittance houses’ do have positive effects which are different for female and male villagers.
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1(1): 69–96, 2013
Set within the growing literature on migration and development, this paper has two interlinked ob... more Set within the growing literature on migration and development, this paper has two interlinked objectives. First, it examines remittances, a key element of the migration-development nexus, from a gendered perspective. Second it does so in a comparative empirical perspective, focusing on remittance behaviour in two contrasting settings, Albania and Ecuador. Both countries have experienced mass emigration in recent decades. Research is based on household surveys with remittance receivers in selected rural areas of both countries, supplemented by in-depth interviews with both senders and receivers of remittances. By using the concept of ‘remittance dyads’ – person-to-person transfers of money and gifts – we examine the gendered
mechanics of conveying and managing remittances to see if they have the potential to reshape gender relations in these migrant households. They do, but the effects are limited.
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Journal of Comparative Migration Studies 1(1): 69-96, 2013
Located within the growing literature on migration and development, this paper has two interlinke... more Located within the growing literature on migration and development, this paper has two interlinked objectives. First, it brings a gender perspective on one of the main elements of the migration-development nexus, namely remittances. Second, it does so in a comparative perspective, focusing on Albania and Ecuador, two very different emigration and remittance settings yet with the potential for fruitful comparison. In the first, theoretical and literature-reviews part of the paper, we review the fluctuating nature of the migration-development debate, highlighting the role of remittances. The rest of the paper is empirical. Our research is based on in-depth surveys and fieldwork in both countries, in selected rural areas of emigration, and in two cities which are major migration destinations, New York for Ecuadorians and Thessaloniki for Albanians. In both cases, migration outflows are heavily shaped by the patriarchal structures of the countries of origin, as well as the work opportunities and migratory routes taken. Men have been the pioneer migrants in the two cases studied, and also the main remitters to the family members left behind. By utilising the concept of ‘remittance dyads’ – person-to-person transfers of money and gifts – we examine the gendered mechanics of sending, receiving, administering and investing remittances, and also the way that participating in remittance transfers in these various roles reshapes gender relations within the migrant family and wider society.
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Migrtation Letters 10(1): 23-32, 2013
This article explores the links between financial and social remittances in the context of Ecuado... more This article explores the links between financial and social remittances in the context of Ecuadorian migration to the US and Spain. Ethnographic research on remittance patterns and impacts was carried out in two villages in Southern highland Ecuador. Each site has a different migration and remittance reception profile, in the broad contexts of Ecuadorian regular migration to Spain versus irregular migration to the US. In the specific cases in this research there are links between social and financial remittances in the realm of migrants' and their relatives' dealings with the Ecuadorian banking system. Experiences prior to migration and exposure while abroad heavily shape their financial behaviour. A second set of links was identified in the sphere of education. These links are highly gendered with non-migrant women getting ahead of their male peers in educational attainment.
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The relationship migrants forge with food is not straightforward. Along with migrants' personal o... more The relationship migrants forge with food is not straightforward. Along with migrants' personal or group features (e.g. gender, generation, age, etc.), specific origin and residence characteristics encourage or hinder specific practices in their new places of residency. Such descriptors also imbue migrants' food practices with different meanings. Using data from Ecuadorian migration to Europe and the US I sketch in this paper three different ways in which food plays out in contexts of migrancy; the case of New York city where Ecuadorian migrants can easily get into an 'already-present home from home' creating and sustaining a transnational food sphere; London where there are very few Ecuadorian migrants but they can draw onto other transnational communities' food resources; and the Spanish Northern town of Santander where there is neither a strong Ecuadorian community nor other relevant ethnic communities.
Keywords: gender, migration, Andean Ecuador, food parcel, foodscape, corn, remittance, body memory, sensuousness, guinea pig
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La relation que les migrants développent avec la nourriture n'est pas simple. Aux caractéristiques personnelles des migrants (leur sexe, leur âge ou les relations générationnelles) se joignent les particularités propres aux lieux d'origine et de résidence pour faciliter ou rendre difficile des pratiques alimentaires spécifiques. Des telles caractéristiques imprègnent les pratiques alimentaires des migrants avec des significations différentes. Utilisant des données sur la migration équatorienne en Europe et aux Etats-Unis, je décris dans cet article trois rapports différents avec la nourriture, développés par les migrants là où ils résident :le cas de New York, où les migrants équatoriens peuvent facilement créer et maintenir une sphère alimentaire transnationale; Londres, où il y a très peu de migrants équatoriens, mais où ceux-ci peuvent utiliser des ressources alimentaires d'autres groupes transnationaux; et la ville espagnole de Santander, dans laquelle n'ont été relevés ni une forte présence équatorienne, ni l'existence d'autres groupes ethniques.
Mots-clés: genre, migration, Andes équatoriennes, colis alimentaire, paysage alimentaire, cochon d'Inde, maïs, mémoire corporelle, sensualité, virement "
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Migration Letters, 2020
This special issue, entitled "Participatory methods in migration research", deals with the method... more This special issue, entitled "Participatory methods in migration research", deals with the methodological challenges and ethical implications of applying participatory methods with migrant populations. Participatory research is often used as a general term for a variety of research projects using different methods, including action research, collaborative research, community-based research, co-creation or some arts-based projects. This special issue assumes that participatory research involves a different epistemology that allows for new insights, reflections and stories. Consequently, one of its main characteristics is the horizontal relationship between researchers and participants, based on the recognition of all the people involved as equal human beings collaborating on a particular research question. Through the SI, one of the themes that is discussed, from a variety of perspectives in the field of migration studies, is power distribution. The challenge is to achieve a more equal share of power among all those involved in the research process. From the set of articles presented here, another theme that emerges strongly is the struggle for social justice beyond the research process itself. The special issue contains a range of participatory research approaches in the field of migration studies from different parts of the word (Africa, Europe, USA) revealing a growing interest in these methodologies.
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La necesidad de explicar cómo o por qué las personas se mueven, sobre todo cuando este movimiento implica un cambio de residencia, hay largas distancias involucradas o se cruza una frontera internacional, se encuentra en la base de muchas y muy variadas investigaciones sociales. Sin embargo, por qué, cómo o para qué permanecer no han sido preguntas que hayan atraído tanta atención, por cuanto implícitamente permanecer aparece como una opción por defecto que no necesita explicación.
Muy al contrario, como demuestran las historias de vida recogidas en el pequeño pueblo morelense de Zacualpan de Amilpas, permanecer es, en muchas ocasiones, consecuencia de elecciones conscientes que derivan de complejas estrategias de vida. Conseguir quedarse es a veces tan difícil como conseguir migrar. La inmovilidad se convierte en un recurso altamente deseado al que no todas las personas tienen acceso y que con frecuencia obliga a activar estrategias en las que la movilidad (propia o ajena) tiene un papel importante.
Papers by Diana Mata-Codesal
the area’s main square, the article explores processes of identification and differentiation in a context where autochthony cannot be unproblematically called upon.
Method: This article analyses the experience of the collective and collaborative project: “Con la cámara a cuestas: Transformative Looks”, in Bilbao, Spain, with a group of fifteen to twenty migrant women from eight Latin American countries.
Findings: Citizenship as a life-long learning process involving individual as well as collective action leading to the promotion of new shared values for more inclusive communities benefits greatly from the use of artistic expressions such as photography. Because of migrant women’s marginalized position as non-formal-citizens, citizenship as participation effectively becomes a fundamental route of influence in the public sphere. Conceptualizing citizenship as struggle and as a critical learning process opens up possibilities for generating new shared ‘habitus’, where ‘recognition’ can be achieved leading to more inclusive societies.
family maintenance remittances, migrants’ savings, debt repayment, emergency money, and gift money. In each case, the dollars families receive as remittances have various meanings. In order to fully understand migrants’ money transfers to their families, the relationships between senders and receivers, which include mutual—and sometimes diverging—expectations and obligations, need to be taken
into account. These relationships are complex, and shaped by gender, age, and kinship considerations.
mechanics of conveying and managing remittances to see if they have the potential to reshape gender relations in these migrant households. They do, but the effects are limited.
Keywords: gender, migration, Andean Ecuador, food parcel, foodscape, corn, remittance, body memory, sensuousness, guinea pig
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La relation que les migrants développent avec la nourriture n'est pas simple. Aux caractéristiques personnelles des migrants (leur sexe, leur âge ou les relations générationnelles) se joignent les particularités propres aux lieux d'origine et de résidence pour faciliter ou rendre difficile des pratiques alimentaires spécifiques. Des telles caractéristiques imprègnent les pratiques alimentaires des migrants avec des significations différentes. Utilisant des données sur la migration équatorienne en Europe et aux Etats-Unis, je décris dans cet article trois rapports différents avec la nourriture, développés par les migrants là où ils résident :le cas de New York, où les migrants équatoriens peuvent facilement créer et maintenir une sphère alimentaire transnationale; Londres, où il y a très peu de migrants équatoriens, mais où ceux-ci peuvent utiliser des ressources alimentaires d'autres groupes transnationaux; et la ville espagnole de Santander, dans laquelle n'ont été relevés ni une forte présence équatorienne, ni l'existence d'autres groupes ethniques.
Mots-clés: genre, migration, Andes équatoriennes, colis alimentaire, paysage alimentaire, cochon d'Inde, maïs, mémoire corporelle, sensualité, virement "
Editorials by Diana Mata-Codesal
La necesidad de explicar cómo o por qué las personas se mueven, sobre todo cuando este movimiento implica un cambio de residencia, hay largas distancias involucradas o se cruza una frontera internacional, se encuentra en la base de muchas y muy variadas investigaciones sociales. Sin embargo, por qué, cómo o para qué permanecer no han sido preguntas que hayan atraído tanta atención, por cuanto implícitamente permanecer aparece como una opción por defecto que no necesita explicación.
Muy al contrario, como demuestran las historias de vida recogidas en el pequeño pueblo morelense de Zacualpan de Amilpas, permanecer es, en muchas ocasiones, consecuencia de elecciones conscientes que derivan de complejas estrategias de vida. Conseguir quedarse es a veces tan difícil como conseguir migrar. La inmovilidad se convierte en un recurso altamente deseado al que no todas las personas tienen acceso y que con frecuencia obliga a activar estrategias en las que la movilidad (propia o ajena) tiene un papel importante.
the area’s main square, the article explores processes of identification and differentiation in a context where autochthony cannot be unproblematically called upon.
Method: This article analyses the experience of the collective and collaborative project: “Con la cámara a cuestas: Transformative Looks”, in Bilbao, Spain, with a group of fifteen to twenty migrant women from eight Latin American countries.
Findings: Citizenship as a life-long learning process involving individual as well as collective action leading to the promotion of new shared values for more inclusive communities benefits greatly from the use of artistic expressions such as photography. Because of migrant women’s marginalized position as non-formal-citizens, citizenship as participation effectively becomes a fundamental route of influence in the public sphere. Conceptualizing citizenship as struggle and as a critical learning process opens up possibilities for generating new shared ‘habitus’, where ‘recognition’ can be achieved leading to more inclusive societies.
family maintenance remittances, migrants’ savings, debt repayment, emergency money, and gift money. In each case, the dollars families receive as remittances have various meanings. In order to fully understand migrants’ money transfers to their families, the relationships between senders and receivers, which include mutual—and sometimes diverging—expectations and obligations, need to be taken
into account. These relationships are complex, and shaped by gender, age, and kinship considerations.
mechanics of conveying and managing remittances to see if they have the potential to reshape gender relations in these migrant households. They do, but the effects are limited.
Keywords: gender, migration, Andean Ecuador, food parcel, foodscape, corn, remittance, body memory, sensuousness, guinea pig
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La relation que les migrants développent avec la nourriture n'est pas simple. Aux caractéristiques personnelles des migrants (leur sexe, leur âge ou les relations générationnelles) se joignent les particularités propres aux lieux d'origine et de résidence pour faciliter ou rendre difficile des pratiques alimentaires spécifiques. Des telles caractéristiques imprègnent les pratiques alimentaires des migrants avec des significations différentes. Utilisant des données sur la migration équatorienne en Europe et aux Etats-Unis, je décris dans cet article trois rapports différents avec la nourriture, développés par les migrants là où ils résident :le cas de New York, où les migrants équatoriens peuvent facilement créer et maintenir une sphère alimentaire transnationale; Londres, où il y a très peu de migrants équatoriens, mais où ceux-ci peuvent utiliser des ressources alimentaires d'autres groupes transnationaux; et la ville espagnole de Santander, dans laquelle n'ont été relevés ni une forte présence équatorienne, ni l'existence d'autres groupes ethniques.
Mots-clés: genre, migration, Andes équatoriennes, colis alimentaire, paysage alimentaire, cochon d'Inde, maïs, mémoire corporelle, sensualité, virement "
En un contexto como el de Xarbán de intensa emigración y recepción de remesas (tanto materiales en la forma de dinero y objetos, como sociales en la forma de ideas y prácticas) los rituales festivos de base religiosa están expuestos a intensas transformaciones y continuidades. Centrándome en la principal fiesta religiosa de la aldea, en honor al patrón del lugar, el Señor de los Milagros, este artículo analiza el funcionamiento del sistema de cargos (priostes como se denomina en el entorno andino) transnacional asociado con esta fiesta, que se celebra de manera simultánea cada septiembre en Ecuador y en Estados Unidos. Las características de los flujos migratorios y las condiciones de vida de los migrantes en sus nuevos lugares de residencia condicionan el ritmo y tipo de las transformaciones que experimentan las tradiciones y rituales rurales en sus lugares de origen.
XXXVI International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association LASA2018-Latin American Studies in a Globalized World Barcelona (Spain) 23-26th May 2018.
Please send your paper proposal (max. 250 words) to the panel organizers BEFORE 2 SEPTEMBER 2017
Llamada a presentaciones PARTICIPACIÓN Y MÉTODOS PARTICIPATIVOS EN LA INVESTIGACIÓN LATINOAMERICANA
XXXVI Congreso Internacional de la Asociación de Estudios Latinoamericanos. LASA2018-Los Estudios Latinoamericanos en un Mundo Globalizado. Barcelona (España) 23-26 de mayo de 2018
Por favor, envíe su propuesta de presentación (250 palabras como máximo) a las organizadoras del panel ANTES DEL 2 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2017
PARTICIPATION AND PARTICIPATORY METHODS IN LATIN AMERICAN RESEARCH
XXXVI International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association
LASA2018-Latin American Studies in a Globalized World
Barcelona (Spain) 23-26th May 2018
The aim of this panel is to bring together scholars with expertise on participatory methods and research experiences carried out in liaison with institutions and groups beyond academia, to discuss the possibilities, limits and challenges of participation in Latin American research.
Participatory approaches aim to subvert power-loaded research relationships by engaging in a process of knowledge co-production between researcher and participants. However, there has been insufficient discussion on the principles, tensions and frictions that underlie participation and the scientific potential of participatory processes. How do we as scientists, facilitators and participants enact counter-power? What may be key principles that underlie the process of knowledge co-production? Whereas a corner stone of critical thinking is that knowledge is not objective, scientific validity is still an ideal that we strive forward (Cho & Trent 2006). How can participatory research contribute to scientific validity? Further, spaces aimed at mutual learning and co-determination can be encompassed by conflicting interests and can set off tensions. The “co” part of co-production, co-determination, and collaboration can constitute a space of frictions and strains. Research partners and gatekeepers are, however, not "powerless" as they control access to the field and are able to negotiate the conditions of their participation (Riaño 2015). And most importantly, in which ways and at what levels do we carry out transformative research? This panel aims to be a forum for interdisciplinary discussion around the value, principles, challenges and scientific potential of participatory processes in research projects with a Latin-American perspective.
We are particularly interested in proposals that:
° Critically explore the ways participation has been appropriated in Latin American research.
° Apply participatory methods with marginalized as well as with non-marginalized groups.
° Provide theoretical and epistemological reflections on participatory methodologies.
° Analyse the challenges, limitations and scientific potential of participatory methodologies.
° Critically reflect on the principles that guide participatory research.
Este libro, además de identificar, representar y promover una determinada línea de investigación dentro de los estudios sobre la migración ecuatoriana, persigue otro objetivo, igualmente importante: el de cerrar un círculo y devolver a la sociedad ecuatoriana miradas, pensamientos y palabras que finalmente, surgieron de los estrechos y accidentados recorridos de sus migrantes peregrinos.
Francesco Romizi (ed.)
Capítulos
Una Virgen ecuatoriana en Manhattan: el doble poder de la imagen religiosa, Francesco Romizi
La Churona en Madrid. El vivir transacional de un culto ecuatoriano, María Cristina Carrillo
Los espacios religiosos de los migrantes y el poder político de los santos cristianos: la Virgen del Cisne en España, Eva Youkhana
Iglesia como espacio transnacional. La religiosidad popular que viaja de Ecuador a España: la devoción a la Virgen del Quinche, Alberto Ares
La religiosidad popular en la experiencia de la movilidd. La rearticulación de la devoción a la Virgen de El Quinche en La Ventanilla, Juan Manuel Guadelis
Identidad saraguro en España. Reflexiones con motivo de la celebración de la Virgen del Cisne en Vera, Alberto García Sánchez
Lo que los migrantes se llevaron: símbolos religiosos y prácticas en tierras italianas, Ruth Lara
La virgen del Cisne en Perugia, Riccardo Cruzzolin
Migración y fiesta popular religiosa, Gabriela Ejluri
Dinero devoto y la transnacionalización de la fiesta del Señor de los Milagros de Xarbán, Diana Mata
https://abyayala.org/Abyayala2018/producto/migrantes-peregrinos/
In Spanish: https://observatoriconflicteurba.org/2018/07/31/huele-a-capitalismo/