Religious practices in migration context. Articulations between transnationalism, locality and identities

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Published 14-03-2016
Ana Inés Mallimaci Barral

Abstract

In recent years the field of migration studies has witnessed a dispute between two perspectives: on the one hand the assimilationist paradigm related to methodological nationalism which is considered classic but archaic. On the other hand, the transnational perspective has sustained that the displacement of persons does not necessarily cause either the generation of assimilation practices by migrants neither by the receiving societies. From the deep conviction that conceptual debates should be embodied and built from empirical work, this paper proposes a case study, the religious festivity of Bolivian migrants in Ushuaia, to analyse the tensions and articulations between transnational and assimilationist logics and to understand the daily life of migrant populations.

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Keywords

migration, religion, transnationalism

Section
Research Articles