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Latin American Transnational Political Engagement: Steering Civic Movements and Cultural Repertoires from the Global City of Brussels
Lara Guerrero, Larisa Viridiana; Vivas-Romero, María
2020In Norocel, Ov Cristian; Hellström, Anders; Jørgensen (Eds.) Nostalgia and Hope: Intersections between Politics of Culture, Welfare, and Migration in Europe
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Keywords :
Mobilisation; Women; Latin America
Abstract :
[en] Migrants are active civic agents participating in transnational social movements. They create, transform, and exploit transnational networks to engage in political movements in both their homeland and the hostland. In this chapter, we demonstrate that migrants accumulate political and cultural knowledge, symbols, emotions of hope, nostalgia, and political practices as a result of their emigration experience. Using empirical examples of Latin American migrants living in Brussels, we argue that social remittances shape the way migrants: (1) develop their political and cultural repertoires of contention; (2) constitute their social identities and networks influencing their political behavior; and (3) embody the ideologies, ideas, and norms of their homeland, while being influenced by the multiple cities in which they have lived. We conclude that Latin American migrants have managed to develop and sustain transnational fields of social and political mobilization to defend their politi-cal struggles and ideals from Brussels itself.
Disciplines :
Sociology & social sciences
Author, co-author :
Lara Guerrero, Larisa Viridiana ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences sociales > Centre d'études de l'ethnicité et des migrations (CEDEM)
Vivas-Romero, María
Language :
English
Title :
Latin American Transnational Political Engagement: Steering Civic Movements and Cultural Repertoires from the Global City of Brussels
Publication date :
2020
Main work title :
Nostalgia and Hope: Intersections between Politics of Culture, Welfare, and Migration in Europe
Author, co-author :
Norocel, Ov Cristian
Hellström, Anders
Jørgensen
Publisher :
IMISCOE Research Series
Pages :
203-217
Peer reviewed :
Peer reviewed
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