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Ecological Nostalgias and Interspecies Affect in the Highland Potato Fields of Cusco (Peru)

Ecological Nostalgias

Mobile homes, mobile objects

Home and homemaking in local and transnational family life

2023

House / Keeping

The "stuffing" of kinship: Containing clutter and expansive relations in US homes

Social relatedness and forenaming in ‘mixed' families: valuing children of Filipino-Belgian couples

The literature on ‘mixed' families (in which members are socially viewed as ‘different' due to their varying ethnicities and/or nationalities) identifies several stakes of mixedness. One of them arises from childbirth, after which parents need to give name(s) to their offspring. How does the parent-child dyad understand the giving of names in their mixed family? What does naming children unveil regarding interpersonal interactions and the value of children within this social unit? The chapter delves into these questions through a case study of forenaming children in Filipino-Belgian families in Belgium. Interview data analysis reveals two modes of forenaming in these families: individualisation through single forenames and reinforcement of collective affiliation through compound forenames. Through the analytical framework of social relatedness, this chapter uncovers the way the act of naming a child bridges families based on biological and social ties, generations, and parents' nations of belonging in their transnational spaces. The complex process of naming reflects the power dynamics not only within the parental couple but also within the wider set of social relations. Although the use of forename(s) in everyday life and in legal terms differ, the value of children in the mixed families studied lies in their symbolic role as social bridges linking generations and non-biological relationships, the then and now, and the here and there.

Home and homemaking in local and transnational family lives

This chapter analyzes the ways in which migrants maintain, redefine and reinforce their conceptions of home through various homemaking strategies. For this purpose, we revisit three fast-growing scholarships focusing respectively on transnational families in which the members are geographically separated due to migration; on migrant families settled in their receiving countries; and on families of mixed couples in which the partners are socially viewed as different due to their distinct legal statuses, socio-cultural practices and ethnic backgrounds. The first set of studies reveals that the homemaking of transnational families involves a wide range of material and non-material practices across national borders, which sustains the notion of home within expanded social spaces uniting different kin members "here" and "there". The second body of works unveils migrant families' pluri-local homemaking strategies that encompass their domestic space, neighborhoods, urban spaces and the city in their settlement countries. In the third literature, the homemaking of mixed couples also has a transnational character. However, it is mainly oriented towards their countries of residence, particularly during the (re)productive period of couples' lives when they build their own families and establish their careers. All across these family configurations home is mobile over borders, space and time.

Migration et normes religieuses en mutation : les migrants catholiques philippins à Paris

Les études sur les migrants philippins en France ont dévoilé comment leur organisation autour de l'Église catholique dite « philippine » leur permet de faire face à leur situation souvent précaire dans leur pays d'accueil. Malgré le rôle important de la religion dans la vie de ces migrants, très peu de travaux se sont penchés sur cette question, spécifiquement sur leurs pratiques religieuses. Dans cette présentation, nous examinons ces pratiques, notamment la manière dont les migrants philippins reproduisent les normes religieuses de leur pays d'origine et en même temps, créent de nouvelles activités adaptées à leurs besoins en France. Nous appuyant sur nos études antérieures et sur notre travail de terrain effectué à Paris de 2017 à 2018 dans le cadre de l'ANR RELIMIG, nous montrons dans notre présentation les pratiques religieuses des migrants philippins enracinés dans l'espace et le temps. Ces migrants réévaluent leurs pratiques et les modifient en fonction de leur situation, comme les prières offertes à Saint Lorenzo Ruiz pour son intervention dans la régularisation des sans-papiers philippins et pour qu'il évite une fausse couche. Les pratiques religieuses variées de ces migrants reflètent, d'une part, le rôle-clé de l'Église dans le développement des liens sociaux et de la fidélité à la langue et la région d'origine, et d'autre part, l'influence de leurs convictions politiques individuelles.

Entre vulnérabilité et agency : les femmes migrantes philippines dans le système global de reproduction sociale

Dans la nouvelle division internationale du travail reproductif, les femmes migrantes jouent un rôle prépondérant dans le fonctionnement des foyers dans leurs société d'origine et d'accueil. Pourtant, ces migrantes vivent le plus souvent en marge de la société. Comment ces femmes deviennent-elles vulnérables à l'exclusion sociale et aux diverses formes de précarité ? De quelle manière vivent-elles cette situation ? Se basant sur des recherches ethnographiques en Europe de l'Ouest, ce chapitre vise à répondre à ces questions en examinant trois cas représentatifs des femmes philippines travailleuses domestiques en situation irrégulière en France, des femmes philippines en couples « mixtes » en Belgique et des femmes philippines divorcées aux Pays-Bas. Ces cas démontrent que les femmes migrantes ne peuvent pas être automatiquement catégorisées comme des victimes, passives et fragiles. En effet, elles sont des actrices sociales dotées de capacité d'action (agency), ce qui leur permet de naviguer des situations difficiles.

Food Abundance and the Storage of Tuberous Kin

Hoarding has largely been approached from a psychological and universal perspective, and decluttering from an aesthetic and ecological one, while little work has been done to think about the cultural and global economic aspects of these phenomena. Of Hoarding and Housekeeping provides an anthropological, global, and comparative angle to the understanding of hoarding and decluttering using cases from a variety of countries including US, Japan, India, Cameroon, and Argentina. Focusing on the house, with careful attention to material flows in and out, this book examines practices of accumulation, storage, decluttering, and waste as practices of kinship and the objects themselves as material kin.

Revisiting global care chains: power inequalities in Filipino transnational families' caregiving arrangements

Since the 1980s, many Filipino labour migrants in the world have been women. In France, the Filipino migrant population is largely composed of migrant mothers who live in urban areas, work in the domestic service sector, and have an irregular migration status. This chapter revisits the ‘global care chains' debate through examination of the caregiving arrangement between Filipino migrant mothers and the women in their extended families who take care of their children in the Philippines. Ethnographic analysis reveals that such arrangements provide economic advantages but also obligations and constraints. They have important consequences on the lives of migrant women, who find themselves tied in an interdependent but unequal relationship, characterised by solidarity and enforceable trust. This case study demonstrates how childcare arrangements associated with long-distance women's migration reinforce gender norms in transnational families and widen the economic gap between women sharing the same national and family identities, along the care chain. However, both the Filipino migrant mother resident in France and the stay-behind woman relative caring for her children in the Philippines generally succeed in improving their economic welfare relative to the local non-transnational families of their home area.

Chapitre 2 Diversité et discriminations

Zai Shanghai jiaoqu de chengshi zhuanxing zhong shenghuo

Zou xiang yali renleixue

Renleixue —— Mudi yu fangfa

The "Stuffing" of Kinship

2022

Missing in the Mediterranean: a perspective from Tunisian mothers

Gender gaps in migration studies. Recent developments and prospects

Feminist scholars from different disciplines introduced gender perspectives in migration studies and contributed to the burgeoning of what is known today as “gender and migration” scholarship. More than four decades after the development of this scholarship, several questions can be raised: what is the present state of broader migration studies? Are there still gender gaps in this field of research? How can we further advance migration studies? “Gender gaps” refer here to lacunas in the extent to which scholarly focuses, methodologies, and analyses are gender inclusive, gender informed, or gender oriented. To find out the state of migration studies, the present chapter draws from a qualitative review of the “gender and migration” scholarship and from a quantitative study of the broader literature on migration studies through a bibliometric analysis of the migration literature between 1980 and 2019 using major search engines and websites of leading journals in the field. By adopting a mixed methodological approach, this chapter unveils the evolution of gender and migration scholarship in different regions of the world. It uncovers three gender gaps: the visibility of women in migration studies unintentionally leads to feminised gender in the field; heteronormativity still prevails, which slows down the inclusion of sexuality and queer perspectives in migration studies; and the influence of gender and migration scholarship has not yet permeated the broader migration studies. These observations call for collaborative actions to make migration studies more diversified, interdisciplinary, and gender sensitive.

Mobile homes, mobile objects: Materiality and mobility of vietnamese-belgian couples

Le Carnaval de Charleroi en partage

Biaoyan, performance.

Que s'est-il passé? Disparition par migration en Méditerranée et engagements par épreuve des mères en Tunisie

Introduction. Tangled mobilities in the age of transnational migration

This Introduction to the edited volume Tangled Mobilities presents its observation that the dynamic spatial movements of people across state frontiers take place alongside the circulation of affects and the transformation of individual's personhood as they position themselves within their cross-border social spaces. This situation entails emotional, social, and economic challenges that migrants and their families confront or live with. In recent years, scholarly works have illuminated these challenges tied to the various forms of mobilities that people experience, such as spatial, geographical, social, and intimate mobilities. Existing studies have most often examined these mobilities separately, overlooking thereby their interconnectedness or tanglement. As migration becomes increasingly complex over time, it creates social conditions in which people undergo different crisscrossing, intersecting mobilities during different stages in their life course. To analyse these complex conditions, this Introduction piece proposes the plural lens of "tangled mobilities" - a dynamic, unfolding process in which elements, components, and forms of mobility exist alongside, intersect with, and overlap one another in complex ways, resulting in stasis and movements across different life dimensions (social, legal, intimate, sexual, digital, and temporal).

Conclusion. Empirical insights, policy implications, and COVID-19 influences

Pursuing respectability in mobility: marriage, migration, and divorce of Filipino women in Belgium and the Netherlands

‘The Party-State Has Come' - Ritual Rupture and Cosmological Continuity on a Ridgetop in Laos

2021

Relational transnationalism of Filipino/Thai Belgian youths in Belgium: mothers, memories, emotions and social entities

The literature on the transnational practices of the ‘second generation' mainly focuses on children whose parents are migrants, which neglects the offspring of ‘mixed' couples with different nationalities and/or ethnicities. This chapter addresses this gap by examining the links that children of Filipino-Belgian and Thai-Belgian couples maintain and reinforce with their migrant mothers' respective countries of origin, as well as the driving forces behind their cross-border practices. The results of multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork in Belgium using children-focused methodology indicate these youths' relational transnationalism. Those whose mothers keep dynamic transnational connections and transmit them the culture and values of their country of origin exhibit a keen interest in that society and feel close to it. The power dynamics between parents, their economic resources and their children's age fashion this intergenerational transmission. Interestingly, youths who were born and spent their childhood partly in their mother's country of origin - the 1.5 generation - show more initiative in sustaining links with that country than their counterparts who grew up in Belgium. This difference stems from the informants' place- and people-attached memories and emotions. The present study also observes the role of social entities such as the State in shaping the transnationalism of mixed-parentage individuals.

Ethics of Work and Freedom in the Salvage Capitalism

Negotiating transnational mobility and gender definitions in the context of migration

The rise of mobility and transnationalism perspectives in the social sciences has contributed to a burgeoning literature on the cross-border movements of people. Gender as a conceptual lens has increasingly taken a central stage in the analyses, unveiling unequal power relations as well as unmasking the often-hidden macro-social processes and structures that shape them. As a category of difference, gender influences individuals' attitudes and behavior, including their decision to migrate or not across borders of nation-states. This raises the question of how transnational mobility and gender intersect in the lives of individuals. To shed light on this issue, this article takes stock of the literature on transnational migrations associated with social reproduction: labor, marriage, and reproductive migrations. Such research reveals individuals' tactics to negotiate their transnational mobility and gender definitions: using the dominant gender scripts in the country of origin, reconciling the gender ideologies in their countries of origin and destination, or aligning their narratives to specific moral values. Transnational mobility acquires different social meanings at certain points in time and in varying contexts, whereas gender remains at large anchored to its heteronormative foundation. Finally, based on the analysis of existing studies, a more holistic approach to transnational mobility through a sexuality-inclusive, process-oriented, subjectivity- and agency-focused, and time-sensitive framework is called for.

Introduction: Mining Capitalism

Conclusion: Beyond the Neoliberal Labour Regime

Human Resource Managers: Mediating Capital and Labour

Labour Regimes: A Comparative History

Ethics of Work and Freedom in the Argentinean Andes

HUMAN REMAINS AND INDIGENOUS RELIGIOSITY IN THE MUSEUM SPACE: Ritual Relations to the Altaian Mummy in the Anokhin National Museum of the Altai Republic, Russia

Scripts sexuels

2020

Ecological nostalgias and interspecies affect in the highland potato fields of Cuzco (Peru)

Official miniatures

Nostalgic Confessions in the French Cévennes: Politics of Longings in the Neo-Peasants Initiatives

Introduction. Theorizing Social Im/mobilities in Africa

For a multidimensional analysis of Social Positionality in Africa

Chicano Masculinities

Fluctuating social class mobility of Filipino migrant children in France and Italy

The children of transnational families have attracted important scientific attention for the last decades, which reflects the social concern about their well-being as they grow up separated from one or both of their parents. When family reunification takes place in the receiving country of the migrant parents, children themselves become migrants. How do these migrant children experience childhoods in terms of social class mobility? In what way do they confront the class (im)mobilities accompanying serial migration? In this chapter, we explore these questions by focusing on the case of Filipino migrants' children, the 1.5 generation, who grew up partly in the Philippines and partly in Europe. We argue that these migrant children experience social class (im)mobilities differently from those of their adult counterparts who in many cases undergo “contradictory class mobility” (Parreñas 2001). The results of our ethnographic fieldwork among children of Filipino migrants in France and in Italy illustrate their fluctuating social class mobilities characterized by several upward-downward movements, and also include phases of immobility. Before family reunification, these children enjoyed a middle-class lifestyle in the Philippines thanks to their migrant parents' remittances. When they migrated to rejoin their migrant parents, their class belonging in their country of origin was either maintained or further reinforced by their migration. However, at the same time, they underwent downward class mobility in their receiving country. All these fluctuating mobilities point to the importance of the influence of space on migrants' lives, as changes in spaces of living most often entail changes in spaces of being.

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