Border Transgression (eBook)

PD Dr Eva Youkhana teaches Anthropology and Migration Studies at the Center for Development Research at the University of Bonn and leads the Cuban-German School for Interdisciplinary Development Studies.

Title Page 4
Copyright 5
Table of Contents 6
Body 8
Acknowledgements 8
Eva Youkhana: Introduction 10
Mobility and mobilization 10
The international conference in Bonn 12
The composition of the volume 13
Bibliography 18
I. Approaching mobility, migration and borders 20
María José Guerra Palmero: Migrations, gender and transnational citizenship – Global economy and women's mobility at stake 22
Introduction 22
Theoretical considerations: citizenship rights and migration 22
Stating the problem: Work and care regimes and gender equality 25
Feminization of survival and migrations 27
Migrations, gender and citizenship 30
Final remarks 32
Bibliography 33
Yvonne Riaño: Conceptualising space in transnational migration studies. A critical perspective 36
Introduction: Why think about space in studies of transnational migration? 36
Critical review of the literature: How has space been conceptualised in studies of transnational migration? 37
What can be a fruitful approach to conceptualise transnational social space in studies of migration and mobility? 40
Conclusions 45
Bibliography 46
Maria Schwertl: Turning to the satellite, the container, the smartphone, technologization or situations of bordering and border crossing? Differences in using new materialistic approaches for ethnographic studies on migration and border regimes 50
Three different ways of looking at a container 54
Approach 1: Regimes as actor-networks or actor-networks in regimes 57
Approach 2: Following things and materialities 61
Approach 3: Zooming into situations, microphysics or events 62
New materialism: Migration and border studies: Critique 64
Bibliography 66
Juan Carlos Velasco: Borders, migrations, and fortune 72
Borders in a globalized world 73
Borders and justice 75
Borders and inequality of opportunities 76
Overcoming the arbitrariness of fortune 79
Bibliography 82
II. Contesting, negotiating, and mobilising 84
Yaatsil Guevara González: Negociando fronteras: Tácticas de migrantes indocumentados en la frontera México-Guatemala 86
Introducción 86
Las fronteras sur de México 89
Reconfigurando trayectorias 90
Constelaciones sociales: El coyote 91
Coyotaje como resistencia y negociación 94
Conclusión 97
Bibliografía 98
Gioconda Herrera / Lucia Pérez Martínez: Times of crisis and times to return? Migratory, occupational and social trajectories of returning migrants in Ecuador 100
Introduction 100
Return in migration studies 102
The site of the inquiry: Llano Grande, caught between ancestral identity and transnational migration 105
Migration trajectory and return: Labor and social insertion 106
Migration trajectories: Gender, social capital, and mobility 106
Occupational trajectories: gender, cultural capital, and crisis 109
Social Insertion 112
Conclusion 115
Bibliography 116
Lara Jüssen: Animating citizenship through migrant labor struggles. Latin American household workers and creative protest in Madrid 118
Introduction 118
Citizenship 119
Doing household labor in Madrid 123
Collective enactments of citizenship 126
Conclusion 133
Bibliography 135
III. Constructing identities and belonging across borders 138
Eva Youkhana: Migrants' religious spaces and the power of Christian Saints – the Latin American Virgin of Cisne in Spain 140
Introduction 140
Theoretical approaches: Place-making and the agency of thing 141
Colonial ties between Spain and Latin America and the role of the Catholic Church 143
The origins of the Virgen del Cisne and socio-spatial practices and politics in the colonial period 145
The Catholic Church and Latin American immigration to Spain 146
The Sunday mass in Lavapiés 148
The conflict about the statue of the Virgen del Cisne 150
Politics of place and the production of belonging by the Catholic Church 152
Conclusions 153
Bibliography 154
Rodrigo Fidel Rodríguez Borges: Denotar, connotar, criminalizar la inmigración. Cómo los medios de comunicación hacen cosas con palabras 158
Introducción 158
¿Qué significa hablar (de inmigración)? 161
La narrativa criminalizadora de la inmigración: Términos, cifras y metáforas 164
Conclusiones 168
Bibliografía 170
Marisa Ruiz Trejo: A feminist anthropology approach to the “Transnational Radio Field”. The case of Latino Radio in Madrid 172
Introduction 172
Framing the topic 173
Methodology: from observation to articulation 176
Approaching the field 177
Diaries of the field 180
Imperfect radio stations 180
Undocumented radio stations 185
Paradoxical dynamics of Latino radio stations 190
Conclusion 193
Bibliography 194
Biographic notes 196