Migration Citizenship Labour Latin American World-Makers Resisting C

Lara Jüssen takes the case of Latin American household and construction workers in Madrid to show how ir/regular labour migrants make citizenship available for themselves through emplacements, embodiments and enactments of citizenship. After describing th

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Migration Citizenship Labour Latin American World-Makers Resisting Crisis in Madrid

Migration Citizenship Labour

Lara Jüssen

Migration Citizenship Labour Latin American World-Makers Resisting Crisis in Madrid

Lara Jüssen Bonn, Germany Dissertation Universität Bonn, 2016

ISBN 978-3-658-19104-7 ISBN 978-3-658-19105-4  (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-658-19105-4 Library of Congress Control Number: 2017950088 Springer VS © Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH 2017 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Printed on acid-free paper This Springer VS imprint is published by Springer Nature The registered company is Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH The registered company address is: Abraham-Lincoln-Str. 46, 65189 Wiesbaden, Germany

To my family

Preface

Hope and the experience of improved life in Spain motivated Latin Americans to continuously pursue good life and to identify as citizens, even under circumsta-nces of recession and crisis. And to take the claim for good life serious means to consider everybody’s right to choose where to live it. The heydays of the indignad@s in which migrants and autochthonous people convened, will always be in intense memory to me. The perspectives of activists, social workers, and migrant associations entered my views to the field and I am deeply grateful for insights provided. This book developed as doctoral thesis within the social infrastructure of the Research Network for Latin America – Ethnicity Citizenship Belonging (funded by the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research), which provided an excellent environment for developing thoughts and approaches to fieldwork in the cont4xt of basic research upon the three central concepts, which we focused upon from an examination of space in Bonn. I also thank my colleagues at the Interdiscpilinary Latin America Center (ILZ), the Center for Developement Research (ZE