Research on Migration in English and Spanish. Investigaciones sobre la migración en Español e Inglés.
Recent publications
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Galhardi, Renato (2023) “At the heart of migrancy: The politics of emotions of Mexican male migration experience”, paper presented at the 117th American Sociological Association, Bureaucracies of Displacement, International Migration session, Latinx Roundtable, 7 August, 2022. https://convention2.allacademic.com/one/asa/asa/index.php?click_key=2#search_top
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Galhardi, R. de A. A. (2022). Territories of migrancy and meaning: The emotional politics of borderscapes in the lives of deported Mexican men in Tijuana. International Journal of Cultural Studies, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/13678779221144758
Abstract
This article discusses how Mexican deportees find meaning and negotiate their agency in the borderscape and borderland of Tijuana, Mexico. Established through vice tourism, Tijuana has figured prominently as a site for expressions of migrancy. Within the expressions of migrancy, deported migrants find themselves in constant states of in-betweenness in systems of mediation. Through in-depth interviews with deported Mexican men living in temporary male-centric shelters, I identify and examine the issues of mobility ‘through the body’ of deported migrants, highlighting the politics of emotions, of being, and of seeing. Through analysis of the phenomenology of migration through Tijuana, I highlight the overreaching situated positions of permanent temporality mediating the lives of deported Mexican men. This perspective, therefore, sheds a necessary light on an often overlooked and marginalized condition of the migrant population.
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Galhardi, R. (2022), “De-migranticizing Migrancy: Approaching Migration and (In)mobility Analysis Through Rhizomatic thinking, Feminist Epistemes and the Embodied Experience of Migration”, in Pao, C. & Zubok, M. (comp.). Measuring Migration Conference 2022 Conference Proceedings. Transnational Press London. (read proceeding here)
Summary
International migration analysis frequently addresses mobility phenomena through state-centric macrolevel descriptions. This “top down” approach is helpful to portray general patterns and highlight structural issues that contribute to mobility, but often omits “the figure of the migrant”. Feminist phenomenology demonstrates the importance of articulating “the body” as social constructions of expressions of biopolitical relations that structure ontological positioning in the world. Heeding to the plea to de-migranticize migration analysis, I argue that it is imperative to redress international migration analysis “through the body” by reframing migrancy through feminist phenomenology and reflexivity. Through rhizomatic thinking, illustrated with narratives on the Mexico-United States borderlands, I propose a re-conceptualization of migrancy that embodies positionality argued through feminist narratives as imperative to the centre of migration and (in)mobility research.
Galhardi, R. de A. A. (2022). Territories of migrancy and meaning: The emotional politics of borderscapes in the lives of deported Mexican men in Tijuana. International Journal of Cultural Studies, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/13678779221144758
Galhardi, Renato A. A. (2022). La masculinidad en las entrañas de Tijuana: Las vidas desoladas de los deportados, Revista Con la A, no. 82, julio de 2022
https://conlaa.com/la-masculinidad-en-las-entranas-de-tijuana-las-vidas-desoladas-de-
los-deportados/
THE HABITUS OF MIGRANCY IN MEXICAN MIGRATION
Routed Magazine, Issue 17, 23 october 2021
The habitus of migrancy in Mexican migration | Routed Magazine
Migrancy is a ubiquitous concept in migration analysis. But what do scholars mean when they use migrancy? And, maybe more importantly, what is migrancy? By retracing the meanings embedded in the first usages of migrancy, it becomes clear that migrancy is something more than another expression for migration with important implications for migration analysis. Migrancy is something that the body feels and expresses, and a fundamental aspect of the experience of migration. To think of migrancy is to think of the habits and structures (habitus) of the embodied experience of migration. Thinking ‘through’ this narrative can increase our understanding, as well as our sensibilities, about the plight of migrants.
Abstract
Mexico-United States migration research rarely use the concept migrancy and migration analysis has often used migrancy “out of context”. By reviewing the usages of migrancy, I argue that migrancy is better understood as the embodiment of the experience of migration. I reason that the experience of migration is best captured through intersectional analysis.By addressing gender, ethnicity and class, migrancy can recapture migrant agency and bridge the gap between micro and macro analysis. Within the Mexico-United States migratory field, I argue that migrancy is a powerful concept that addresses the structuring forces that shape migrant experiences without sacrificing migrant agency.
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Pocas tecnologías modernas han logrado cambiar de forma tan radical la relación social como internet lo ha hecho. En un poco más de dos décadas, internet ha reemplazado, revitalizado y radicalmente cambiado la formas de comunicación del tejido de la sociedad moderna, creando, como bien lo detalló Manuel Castells, una sociedad red, una “red de redes” (2001). La realidad que nos encontramos está sumamente influenciada, relacionada y manipulada por esta tecnología disruptiva (Christensen y Bower, 1995). Es dentro de una nueva revolución de las tecnologías de la información y la comunicación (TIC), con la expansión, popularización y penetración de internet en el tejido de cada vez más sociedades y realidades, que nuestra con-figuración social incorpora, de forma expansionista, una amplitud de herramientas de comunicación raramente concebidas antes. Es-tamos hablando de una transformación radical, tanto en términos de la forma de la comunicación como en términos de la forma de relacionarnos. Las teorías clásicas y tradicionales de la esfera sociológica, como son la interacción simbólica, la fenomenología, la psicología social, entre otras, se encuentran testadas por estos nuevos entornos y referentes.