Mobile Selves : Race, Migration, and Belonging in Peru and the U.S. / Ulla D. Berg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Berg, Ulla D., Author.

Series:

Social Transformations in American Anthropology

Social Transformations in American Anthropology ; 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Race awareness--Peru.

Race awareness.

Race awareness--United States.

Transnationalism--Social aspects--Peru.

Transnationalism.

Transnationalism--Social aspects--United States.

Peruvian Americans--Ethnic identity.

Peruvian Americans.

Peruvian Americans--Social conditions.

United States--Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.

United States.

Peru--Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.

Peru.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (321 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : New York University Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

An explanation of how Peruvian migrants maintain meaningful social relations across borders.In this engaging volume, Ulla D. Berg examines the conditions under which Peruvians of rural and working-class origins leave the central highlands to migrate to the United States. Migrants often create new portrayals of themselves to overcome the class and racial biases that they had faced in their home country, as well as to control the images they share of themselves with others back home. Migrant videos, for example, which document migrants’ lives for family back home, are often sanitized to avoid causing worry. By exploring the ways in which migration is mediated between the Peruvian Andes and the United States, this book makes a major contribution to understanding technology’s role in fostering new forms of migrant sociality and subjectivity. It focuses on the forms of sociality and belonging that these mediations enable, adding to important anthropological debates about affect, subjectivity, and sociality in today’s mobile world. It also makes significant contributions to studies of inequality in Latin America, showcasing the intersection of transnational mobility with structures and processes of exclusion in both national and global contexts. A key resource for understanding the experiences of racialized and indigenous migrant populations, Mobile Selves demonstrates the critical role that ethnography can play in transdisciplinary migration studies and exemplifies what comparative migration studies stand to gain from anthropological analysis and ethnographic methodologies.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Figures

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Salir Adelante

2. Paper Fixes

3. Remote Sensing

4. Unfortunate Visibilities

5. Enframing Peruvianness

6. Phantom Citizens in El Quinto Suyo

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

About the Author

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)

ISBN:

1-4798-6377-7

OCLC:

913743468