Ecuadorian Immigrants And Symbolic Nationalism In Chicago

Pallares, Amalia

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“…2. See for comparison Aparicio and Tornos Cubillo (2010) on the Spanish case; and Pallares (2005) for a study of Ecuadorians' associations and 'symbolic nationalism' in Chicago. 3.…”

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One (Slender) Tree, Many (Social) Roots: Revisiting Immigrant Associations Through a Case Study on Ecuadorians in Italy

Boccagni

Pilati

2015

Journal of Civil Society

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Immigrant associations are often assumed to be social phenomena already 'out there', while their developmental trajectories and social roots are relatively understudied. Much literature has explored their contribution to the socio-political integration of newcomers, lumping together all of their non-political activities as 'co-ethnic sociability'. However, their micro-social roots deserve more attention, and the identity and symbolic dimensions of their initiatives are worth investigating further. Based on a literature review and an ethnography of a group of Ecuadorians living in Northern Italy, we revisit the factors affecting the development of immigrant associations as well as their primary fields of activity. While these associations are expressive of immigrants' cultural backgrounds and basically deal with informal sociability, they also have an implicitly political dimension, as they mirror immigrants' struggle for public visibility and recognition. A better appreciation of the political significance of immigrant associations (despite their shortcomings and political marginality), and of their evolving roots, is necessary to understand why, and how, newcomers such as the Ecuadorians in our case study may (or may not) join them.

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“…2. See for comparison Aparicio and Tornos Cubillo (2010) on the Spanish case; and Pallares (2005) for a study of Ecuadorians' associations and 'symbolic nationalism' in Chicago. 3.…”

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One (Slender) Tree, Many (Social) Roots: Revisiting Immigrant Associations Through a Case Study on Ecuadorians in Italy

Boccagni

Pilati

2015

Journal of Civil Society

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“…Folkloric groups, particularly the energetic caporales and tinkus dances, tend to draw younger second and 1.5 generation Bolivians from different regions and cities in the country, as well as friends of other ethnic backgrounds. Folkloric dance performances are an example of what Pallares (2005) calls symbolic nationalism, or practices that reproduce nationalism from the sending country. Similarly, Grimson (1999) has argued that folkloric festivals among Bolivians in Argentina can be understood as unifying experiences that provide migrants from different regions and socio-economic backgrounds with a collective identity and a common past.…”

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‘We are Always Thinking of our Community’: Bolivian Hometown Associations, Networks of Reciprocity, and Indigeneity in Washington D.C.

Strunk¹

2014

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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Using the case of Bolivian migrants in the Washington D.C. metropolitan area, this article analyses the development of hometown associations and the construction of migrant communities at multiple scales. While research has largely focused on the role of hometown associations (HTAs) in promoting local development in sending countries, HTAs also facilitate civic engagement and shape identity formation in both sending and receiving contexts. The article explores the efforts of HTAs and other migrant organisations to construct unified Bolivian communities at local, regional, national and transnational scales, while demonstrating that HTAs are simultaneously contested and highly gendered spaces. It analyses soccer fields and folkloric dance performances as sites of cultural production that seek to transfer practices and identities to the 1.5 and second generations. The article also contributes to an emerging literature on indigenous migration by examining how Bolivians have transferred and adapted organisational practices and networks of reciprocity from rural Cochabamba to suburban Washington D.C. It argues that indigenous migrants are developing new ways of being native even as they move across borders and reside away from traditional lands for long periods of time. Indigenous Migration and Bolivian HTAsHTAs are organisations composed of migrants from a single village or town whose primary function is to contribute resources and carry out public works projects in communities of origin (Lanly and Valenzuela 2004). Unlike individual and familial remittances, collective remittances organised by HTAs to build basic infrastructure, communication and recreation projects serve a public good and are designed to provide services that otherwise would be unattainable in rural communities (Goldring 2004). HTAs are based around existing ties between family members and migrants from a single community or region (Rivera-Salgado and Rabadán 2004) and also provide spaces where immigrants can maintain and renew connections in a different Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 1699 Downloaded by [Bangor University] at 08:

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“…The relevance of the leisure side of collective immigrants’ initiatives (Pallares, 2005) is well recognized, as far as I could see, both “here” and “there”. Compatriots’ attitudes in this respect range from sympathetic approval to harshly critical ones.…”

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“Whom should We Help First?” Transnational Helping Practices in Ecuadorian Migration

Boccagni¹

2013

International Migration

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Collective remittances, in the framework of migrant transnationalism, have been recently dealt with in some empirical research, especially on the Mexican-US migration system. Far less studied is their significance in different migration flows, including their real contribution -as desirable as this may be -to local development. The article is concerned with a bottom up analysis of a migration flow where collective remittances -as the only way for emigrants to keep helping their local communities, well beyond their own families -are still in their infancy. It explores, through a translocal ethnography of Ecuadorian migration to Italy, the underlying attitudes, personal meanings and expectations -as well as the structural opportunities and constraints -accounting for helping practices at a distance. Charitable transfers to communities of origin are reconstructed as to their motivations, their main aims and beneficiaries, their embeddedness in mutual networks among immigrant co-nationals. How is it that some of them decide to help ''people in need'' in their own communities overseas, or in their home towns, or in both? Is this an expression of communal belonging, or a matter of social status maintenance, or something else?Further reflections on the dilemmas inherent in transnational helping practices are then developed. Concluding remarks emphasize the relatively poor scope for such initiatives, in a recent and first-generation flow over a long distance. While co-ethnic solidarity overseas is a precondition for transnational helping practices, the latter are also affected by the developments of public policies in the countries of origin and of destination. Overall, an effective integration overseas is necessary for collective remittances to have some currency and impact.Helping other people here?!? This is the duty of the State, they've been doing nothing so far -it's not our concern! We already work so hard for our families… W., ex-immigrant (Pasaje, 11.06) With respect to them [those left behind], we are the privileged ones! The truly poor ones are there [in Ecuador], not here [in Italy]... J., immigrant (Trento, 04.07)

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Ecuadorian Immigrants And Symbolic Nationalism In Chicago

Cited by 12 publications

References 11 publications

One (Slender) Tree, Many (Social) Roots: Revisiting Immigrant Associations Through a Case Study on Ecuadorians in Italy

One (Slender) Tree, Many (Social) Roots: Revisiting Immigrant Associations Through a Case Study on Ecuadorians in Italy

‘We are Always Thinking of our Community’: Bolivian Hometown Associations, Networks of Reciprocity, and Indigeneity in Washington D.C.

“Whom should We Help First?” Transnational Helping Practices in Ecuadorian Migration

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