Solidarity research with Xochicuicatl e.V. : Exploring the dynamics between the organization its beneficiaries and the overall migrant group

• Main Author: Blanz, Franziska
• Format: Others
• Language: English
• Published: Linköpings universitet, Avdelningen för migration, etnicitet och samhälle (REMESO) 2020
• Subjects: Solidarity Research; Migrant Women’s organization; Social Movement; Latin American Women; Intersectionality; Subaltern Counterpublic; Invited and Invented Spaces of Citizenship; Global migration movements; Germany; Berlin; International Migration and Ethnic Relations; Internationell Migration och Etniska Relationer (IMER)
• Online Access: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-171209

This thesis project is an act of solidarity research with the Berlin based Latin American women’s organization Xochicuicatl. Along the idea that research should be based on the interests and needs of oppressed groups, the research design was developed in cooperation with the organization. The study centers on migration movements between Latin America and the Caribbean and Germany. Moreover, it investigates the dynamics of inner-outer interplay between the organization the beneficiaries and the overall migrant group. The main method isa qualitative content analysis of documents out of the organization’s archive. The organization’s response to transformations is thereby analyzed through action within invited (coping) and invented (resistance) spaces of citizenship. In this regard, the organization’s space is understoodas a subaltern counterpublic which enables a connection between coping and resistance.