ISBN:
9783839458419
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3839458412
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (299 pages)
Series Statement:
Culture and social practice
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als García, Yolanda López Imaginaries of Migration
DDC:
305.868720943
Keywords:
Mexicans Social conditions
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Emigration & Immigration
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Emigration and immigration ; Social aspects
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Mexicans ; Social conditions
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Germany Emigration and immigration
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Social aspects
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Germany
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Hochschulschrift
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Hochschulschrift
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Hochschulschrift
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Hochschulschrift
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Hochschulschrift
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Hochschulschrift
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Hochschulschrift
Abstract:
Cover -- Contents -- Structural Overview -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Research Objective -- Framing Mexican Migration -- General Panorama of German-Mexican Studies -- Mexican emigration to Germany -- Significance of this Research -- Monograph Structure -- 1 Theoretical Lens -- 1.1 The Imaginary: History of a Concept -- 1.2 Mapping the Imaginaries in Different Academic Contexts -- 1.3 Approaching Social Life from the Perspective of the Imaginaries -- 1.3.1 Foundations for Understanding the Imaginaries: The Social Construction of Reality -- 1.3.2 Fields of Action of the Imaginaries
Abstract:
1.4 Migrant Imaginaries -- 1.4.1 The Imaginary Dimension of Life in Migration -- 1.4.2 The Nation as a Dominant Imaginary and its Effects on Migration -- 1.5 Summary -- 2 Methodology -- 2.1 Research Design -- 2.1.1 The Life Story Approach -- 2.2 Procedure for the Collection of Empirical Materials -- 2.2.1 Selection Criteria for Participants -- 2.2.2 Finding Participants -- 2.2.3 Participants' General Information -- 2.2.4 The Conversations -- 2.2.5 Methodology and Tools -- 2.2.6 Transcription & Translation -- 2.3 Analysis Procedure -- 2.3.1 Zooming Out -- Getting to Know the Stories as Unities
Abstract:
2.3.2 Zooming In -- Thematic Analysis -- 2.4 Critical Reflection on the Research Procedure -- 2.4.1 Reflection on Challenges and Limitations -- 2.4.2 Reflection as Researcher and Co-producer of Stories -- 2.4.3 Reflection on my Own Story -- 2.5 Summary -- 3 Re-imagining Life through Migration -- 3.1 Lifestyle in Migration -- 3.2 Motivations for Mobility -- 3.2.1 Motivation for Migration Prior to Germany -- 3.2.2 Motivation for Migrating to Germany -- 3.3 Re-imagining Life in Germany -- 3.3.1 Arrival and First Impressions -- 3.3.2 Internal Mobility in Germany
Abstract:
3.3.3 Re-Imagining Life Quality, Lifestyle and Security -- 3.4 Summary -- 4 Re-imagining Mexicanness -- 4.1 Dialectic between Self-Perception, Perception of Others and Meta-Perception -- 4.1.1 Being Mexican -- 4.1.2 Double Role: as Ambassadors and/or Prisoners of Culture -- 4.2 Re-configuration of Mexicanness through Practices -- 4.2.1 Mexican Cuisine -- 4.2.2 Celebrations, Folkloric Dancing and Traditional and Ethnic Dress -- 4.2.3 Socio-Political Practices -- 4.3 Summary -- 5 Re-imagining Change and Belonging: Agency between Dominant and Emergent Imaginaries -- 5.1 Being Germanized
Abstract:
5.2 Fuzziness: "Not Here, Not There" & "Trapped between Two Worlds" -- 5.3 Practices in the Context of Change -- 5.4 Summary -- Conclusions -- References -- List of Figures/Tables -- List of Abbreviations -- Appendices -- Appendix A: Conversation Index -- Appendix B: Rules for Transcribing -- Appendix C: Participant Overview
Abstract:
How do Mexican migrants in Germany perceive themselves and their lives? Innovatively combining theories of interculturality and social imaginaries, Yolanda López García uses the anthropological method of life stories to investigate the understudied area of Mexican migration to Germany. She discusses areas such as quality of life as a motivation for migration, the role of banal nationalism in imaginaries, the dynamic subjective re-construction of Mexicanness, and the process of (imagined) "Germanisation". Yolanda López García ultimately argues that individuals, as social agents, engage with and construct new emerging imaginaries, which may be viewed as important engines of social change
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