Imaginaries of Migration

Life Stories of Mexican Migrants in Germany
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-3-8376-5841-5
Verlag: transcript

Buch, Englisch, 298 Seiten, Kartoniert, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 225 mm, Gewicht: 465 g

Reihe: Culture and social practice

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

López García, Yolanda

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten

Über Autor(innen)

Yolanda López García, born in 1981, works as researcher and lecturer at the Department of Intercultural Studies and Business Communications at the Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, where she did her doctorate. Her research focuses on social imaginaries, migration, ethnic and national identities, everyday nationalism, intercultural communication, Ibero-American studies and Latin American-Spanish-German relations.