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Historically Rooted Transnationalism: Slightedness and the Experience of Racism in Mexican Families

Lookup NU author(s): Dr Monica Moreno Figueroa

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Abstract

An interest in engaging with what emotions do, rather than what emotions are, and in the pervasiveness of everyday racism, guides this exploration of Mexican family life. Drawing on women's life story interviews, and in particular on their discussions of childhood, I analyse notions of resemblance, slightedness and care within family life to develop the notion of “racist logics”. Attention is paid to historically rooted transnational dimensions of family life as “ways of belonging” to both family and nation. Resulting in private experiences of racism and the neglect of familial and public responsibilities, the discourses of belonging have been influenced by long-term effects of colonialism and migration from Spain.

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Author(s): Moreno Figueroa MG

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: Journal of Intercultural Studies

Year: 2008

Volume: 29

Issue: 3

Pages: 283-297

ISSN (print): 0725-6868

ISSN (electronic): 1469-9540

Publisher: Routledge

URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07256860802169212

DOI: 10.1080/07256860802169212

Notes: Special Issue: Transnational Families: Emotions and Belonging

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