Here and there: Symbolic division and ethnoterritorial identification in inmigrant families
Abstract
What does “being from” some place mean? The way the individuals symbolically structure geographical space has much to do with how they identify themselves with territorial entities more or less defined, or come to terms with ethnic ascriptions linked to those entities (like “latino” or “moros”). In the case of children of migrants, being from here or there has a particular meaning related to the division specific to migrant families by which their members are considered –by the others and by themselves– closer to the place of origin, or to the place of destination of the family migration.
Based on the results of an empirical research, this paper shows how that set of identifications mainly depends on the traces left by the migration on the family’s configuration, that is, on the relationships between its members depending on factors such as gender, generation, place of birth and age classes, amongst others.
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