Pub Date : 2023-05-04DOI: 10.1080/07256868.2023.2211344
Renata Casado, R. Azeredo
ABSTRACT This article builds on data collected as a part of two research projects to provide a comparative study on the migration journeys of young Brazilian couples in Auckland (New Zealand), the Gold Coast and Perth (Australia). We employ the theoretical lens of multi-stage migration to explore how Brazilian migrant couples plan and pursue journeys across different visa statuses to transition through less precarious forms of migration. Findings suggest that they often plan and pursue their journeys together and that their decision to migrate to Australia and New Zealand is linked to the pathways provided by these countries for more secure forms of migration and visa status. The comparative perspective shows that the trajectories of Brazilian migrants in New Zealand are different to the journeys of Brazilians in Australia in relation to the most protracted stage of their visa journeys. The strategies pursued by Brazilian couples to transit to a less precarious migration status are also particular to each of these countries. This article contributes to the sociological literature on multi-stage migration by emphasising how migrants enact collective agency and navigate restrictive migration regimes together as couples, pursuing joint migration strategies that depend on the maintenance of the relationship.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-04DOI: 10.1080/07256868.2023.2208540
Fernanda Peñaloza, G. Gallego
ABSTRACT There is a lack of data exploring how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted the wellbeing and mental health on Latin American students in Australia, whose experiences, besides anecdotal evidence from different mass media outlets and social media platforms, remain underrepresented in the significant and rigorous scholarly work that has emerged in 2020 and in 2021. The aim of this study was to explore the impact of COVID-19 on the wellbeing and mental health of this sector of the student migrant population through 12 qualitative semi-structured interviews, which were analysed using theoretically informed frameworks to explore the meanings that Latin American students ascribe to their experiences in regard to wellbeing and mental health in the context of the COVID-19. Our findings show that students created their own coping mechanisms and social and familial support networks, as a way of compensating for the lack of access to mental health services. The main factors discouraging students to access counselling and/or psychological support are the consultation costs and provision of these services in English, rather than Spanish or Portuguese.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-04DOI: 10.1080/07256868.2023.2213883
R. Azeredo
ABSTRACT This article explores a case of international migration across analogous industrial clusters (IMAAIC), a form of skilled migration largely linked to South-South migration flows. Using the migration from Southern Brazil to Dongguan, China as the unit of analysis, this article presents an ethnographic account based on documental research and participant observation data collected between 2017 and 2021. The findings map the origins of this migration wave and report on the collective homemaking practices of this community in China. The article discusses three characteristics of the Brazilian migration to Dongguan – namely peripheral, narrow, and contingent – and argues that these elements have constitutive effects on the community's social experiences of homemaking in China, particularly by intensifying practices of (re)creation of homeland abroad. This article contributes to the field of Brazilian diasporic research and South-South migration by reporting on an unexplored migrant community. It also proposes that international migration across analogous industrial clusters is a transnational phenomenon that requires further conceptualisation and study.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-04DOI: 10.1080/07256868.2023.2208527
M. L. Vázquez Maggio, G. Mejía
ABSTRACT Digital technologies and mobile apps provide migrants connectivity that helps alleviate the distressing experience of being separated from their families, as they endeavour to integrate socially and culturally into a new nation. In this article, we highlight the role played by communications technologies in maintaining family ties and emotional support transnationally among middle-class individuals. Building on the notions of transnational families, social media research and emotions, we examine the particularities with which migrant family members stay in touch across borders. In this context, emotions arise from the heartache experienced due to the separation from family. Drawing from qualitative data collected in 2010–2011 and in 2021 among middle-class Mexicans living in Australia, we show how digital communications are used to connect with the homeland and analyse the emotions associated with being separated from family. Given the middle-class status and aspirations of these migrants, it is noteworthy to highlight the relevance they attribute to kin in the homeland and contact with them. Existing research about Mexican im/migrants in Australia is limited. This study contributes to the growing body of research on the intersection of transnational family life, emotions arising from mobility, and digital media use.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-04DOI: 10.1080/07256868.2023.2208535
R. Mason, Maria Sofia Amparo Santiago
ABSTRACT Public histories that explore connections between the Philippines and Latin America have rarely been analysed in Manila's museums. Yet, they provide a key space to reflect on changing understanding of coloniality and the importance of transpacific mobility for contemporary Philippine national identity. While museums have previously tended to minimise the presence of Latin American individuals, multiple museum exhibitions have nonetheless pivoted implicitly on the transpacific connection through discussion of trading galleons, religious practices and agents of Spanish empire. The article explores the emergence of conversations that recognise the historical connectivity between the Philippines and Latin America. This connectivity has often been silenced in Philippine museum practices, as the nation seeks to affirm an identity, distinct from its Spanish colonial occupier. The new emergence of transpacific connections in museum narratives provides significant potential to explore the emergence of Philippine identity however. Recentring attention on the era of the galleon trade between Manila and Latin America reveals new sites of emergence and potential meaning-making across Spain’s Pacific colonies.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-04DOI: 10.1080/07256868.2023.2208534
Victor Armony, Bronte Alexander, R. Mason
ABSTRACT There has been a paucity of comparative research regarding social inclusion for the Latin American diaspora worldwide, and this is particularly the case for scholarly work that connects countries in the Americas with nations across the Pacific. Rather than recognise the growing number of Latin Americans who travel throughout the regions of the Pacific Rim, scholarship has remained heavily dominated by works relating to the Latin American population in the United States of America and Europe. In this paper, we shift the attention to Canada and Australia, where both countries increasingly interrogate what have historically been comparable models of multiculturalism and interculturalism. Drawing on data from more a survey of 1600 respondents, we argue that personal and social ties are key to cultivating positive post-migration subjective well-being. In so doing, we highlight the effects of subjective well-being and barriers to integration and belonging. We further illustrate the implications of the intersections of gender, class, and ethnicity in relation to migrants’ well-being and inclusion. Such research demonstrates the need for a better contextualised understanding of migrant inclusion, and for detailed analysis of the situated relationships that constitute Latin American migrant identities across the Pacific Rim.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-04DOI: 10.1080/07256868.2023.2213986
R. Mason, R. Azeredo
This Special Issue delves into the increasing number of Latin American migrants currently residing in the Asia-Pacific region, providing the first scholarly exploration of their collective experiences. Whereas previous scholarship tended to focus on individual states, bilateral relations, and the patterns of migration associated with them, we aim to highlight new and emergent relationships across the Pacific Ocean that transcend the boundaries from the state to the region. In so doing, we seek to acknowledge the substantial changes in migration patterns that have occurred in recent years, alongside a shift in focus from political identity to questions of wellbeing and connectedness to place. Given the increasing scale and complexity of Latin American migration to the Asia Pacific, the studies presented in this collection are particularly timely. The United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs reports that between 2000 and 2020, the number of migrants from Latin America (including the Caribbean) residing outside their country of origin increased by 74 per cent (UNDESA 2020). In 2020, approximately 550,000 Latin American migrants were living in Eastern Asia, South-Eastern Asia, and Oceania, in what is commonly referred to as the Asia-Pacific region. Although this figure is relatively low compared to Latin Americans residing in other regions such as Europe and North America, it is still a significant number that has been increasing at noteworthy rates. Such numerical presence is only one way in which to determine the significance of Latin American migration in the twenty first century, and what the contemporary migration from Latin America to the Asia Pacific represents. Latin American diaspora scholarship consists predominantly of studies that explore movements to the United States of America and Western Europe, emphasising South-North migration patterns and a sense of dependence, domination and marginalisation (Overmyer-Velázquez and Sepúlveda 2015). Shifting the gaze towards the Latin American diaspora beyond the traditional regions in the Global North, therefore, provides novel perspectives on the diversity of Latin America and what it means to be a Latin American migrant. As proposed by Overmyer-Velázquez (2019), the growing globalisation of the Latin American diaspora has an impact on the diasporic identities, one that Latin American Studies is yet to capture. This argument resonates with this collection. As the articles in this Special Issue demonstrate, new expressions of culture, creations of community and attachments to place are articulated when the Latin American diaspora is analysed from the Asia-Pacific perspective. This collection also provides novel perspectives to the existing literature on Latin American migration to the Asia-Pacific region, expanding its geographical scope and demonstrating how avenues for future research and inquiry continue to emerge within the field. Most of the existing literature on the Latin Ame
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Pub Date : 2023-04-21DOI: 10.1080/07256868.2023.2200924
Laura Castro Rodriguez
ABSTRACT Latin American migration to Australia spans over five decades. Despite growing Latin American diasporas in Australia, little is known in public imaginaries about the difficult histories, desires and struggles that have shaped those who fled their countries due to conflict and dictatorships. This article draws from fifteen in-depth interviews with Spanish-speaking migrants from post-conflict and dictatorial Latin America living in Australia. Engaging with decolonial knowledge and scholarship in Latin American memory studies, the article argues for desire-centred memory work in which trauma, damage and deficit narratives are decentred. Through theorising with ambiguity and participants’ voices, I reveal the potential of taking seriously everyday memories of joy, care, and desire to unsettle and nuance normative understandings of difficult histories, including Latin American migration to Australia. In doing so, I also emphasise the importance of engaging with people as epistemic subjects who are doing the difficult memory work by choosing how, when, and where to narrate and share their stories. Ultimately, this article contributes to decolonial, feminist and Southern epistemologies and understandings of memory in the wake of violence that are desire-based (Tuck, E., 2009. Suspending Damage: A Letter to Communities. Harvard Educational Review, 79 (3), 409–427) and transformative.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-13DOI: 10.1080/07256868.2023.2192911
Samuel Curkpatrick, Daniel Wilfred
ABSTRACT This dialogue between Wägilak ceremonial leader Daniel Wilfred and academic Samuel Curkpatrick explores the Yolŋu concepts of raki’ (string), raypirri’ (respect, discipline) and wetj (gift) as they relate to cross cultural understanding and collaborative performance. The ancestral raki’ twines different generations together in song and is strengthened through raypirri’, by which ancestral identities are extended as wetj to a new generation. Through these themes, we consider the role of manikay (public ceremonial song) in the formation of knowledge and responsibility, and the composition of yuta manikay (new songs) through collaborative engagements with the Australian Art Orchestra. By drawing together numerous exchanges between the authors during research activities, teaching and other personal discussions in 2021–22, we emphasise relational textures within Yolŋu epistemology and show how understanding develops through creativity and growth.
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