Introduction: Memories on the Move—Experiencing Mobility, Rethinking the Past

Palmberger, Monika; Tošić, Jelena

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“…Pese al creciente interés por los usos sociales del pasado y la construcción de memorias colectivas, estas temáticas poseen un lugar marginal y un desarrollo reciente dentro del campo de los estudios migratorios, tanto en los Estados Unidos y Europa (Huyssen, 2003;König y Ohliger, 2006;Glynn y Kleist, 2012, 2015Tošic´ y Palmberger, 2016) como en la Argentina (GE-MAS, 2016;Herrera y Monkevicius, 2019). Este artículo se sitúa en esa intersección novedosa y poco explorada, conformada por el cruce entre el campo de los estudios migratorios y el campo de estudios de la memoria social, para analizar la espacialización, materialización y transmisión de uno de los ejes que estructuran la memoria oficial de Berisso 2 y la Argentina.…”

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Inmigración y memoria social en Berisso (Argentina) Un análisis de los lugares de memoria, las prácticas conmemorativas y los objetos ligados a la inmigración ultramarina

Herrera

2021

Papeles

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El artículo analiza —a escala local— el proceso de espacialización, materialización y transmisión de uno de los ejes que estructuran la memoria oficial de la Argentina: la llegada de inmigrantes ultramarinos durante el período de entre siglos (XIX-XX) y el rol jugado por dichos actores en la conformación poblacional de un armónico crisol de razas. A partir de la descripción de tres lugares de memoria emplazados en la ciudad de Berisso, las prácticas conmemorativas que se desarrollan en ellos y los objetos materiales investidos de sentidos memoriales que allí se exhiben, mostramos la capacidad que han tenido distintos actores de la sociedad civil (las asociaciones étnicas locales) y del Estado (la intendencia municipal) para instituir a los inmigrantes ultramarinos en figuras míticas de la memoria local/nacional: héroes, pioneros y padres fundadores de la comunidad. Este proceso no solo relega a un lugar marginal a otros actores presentes en la historia de la ciudad/nación (inmigrantes limítrofes, migrantes internos) sino que, además, silencia/olvida cualquier indicio de conflictividad que pudiera haber existido durante el proceso de integración de los inmigrantes ultramarinos con la sociedad berissense/argentina. Así, a partir del material elaborado durante un extenso trabajo de campo de tipo cualitativo, el artículo muestra que la figura legitimada en los lugares de memoria, en las prácticas conmemorativas y en los objetos analizados no es la de cualquier inmigrante, sino la del inmigrante ultramarino, exitosamente integrado a la cultura nativa y respetuoso de las instituciones locales.

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Section: Papeles Del Ceicunclassified

Inmigración y memoria social en Berisso (Argentina) Un análisis de los lugares de memoria, las prácticas conmemorativas y los objetos ligados a la inmigración ultramarina

Herrera

2021

Papeles

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“…In my attempt to translate their reflections and vocabulary into anthropological theory, I follow in the footsteps of an emerging line of research on migration and movement from an existential perspective (Sayad 1999;Hage 2005;Lucht 2011;Graw and Schielke 2012;Jackson 2013;Jackson and Piette 2015;Gaibazzi 2015b;Elliot 2015;Reeves 2015;Lems 2016;Tošić and Palmberger 2016), focussing on the motivations, experiences, and subjective and intersubjective engagements in a world where migration has become such a powerful source of this-worldly optimism 2 that it has transformed into something like a force of necessity (Alpes 2012;Elliot 2016). This persistent optimism as well as its ambiguous consequences require an existential look at the motivations, the trajectories, and the 'work of fantasy' (Masquelier 2009; see also Sayad 1999;Appadurai 1996: 31; involved in crafting paths of material improvement.…”

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A Bigger Prison

Schielke

2020

Suomen Antropologi

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How does existential mobility-the sense of being able to move forward in one's life-relate to the experience of borders and limitations? Tawfiq is an Egyptian man who once longed to migrate to Europe or the United States, but has since then worked on and off as migrant worker in the Arab Gulf states. He has reflected on this question by using the metaphor of walls:prison walls over which one wants to jump, new walls which one faces next, walls that gently guide you to a certain direction, and the idea that facing and overcoming obstacles is what human life is about. Based on a longitudinal fieldwork with Egyptian labour migrants to the Gulf, this article takes up migrant labourers' reflections about different senses of migration and travel, dreams, money, walls, limits, escape, steps, stability, return, postponement, forward movement and loops. Such ideas are helpful for thinking about the existential pursuits of moving forward in life, the moral shape of social becoming, and the political economy of migrant labour. Taken together, they also contribute to a non-binary understanding of movement and stasis, limits and openings, and the direction and magnitude of steps on the path of social becoming.

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“…For many refugees, ‘memory forms one of the essential modes of reconstituting oneself in the face of an often traumatic past, a radically new present and an uncertain future’ (Tošić and Palmberger, 2016: 7). Recounting a traumatic past can be a ‘struggle between the moral imperative not to forget and the extreme pain of remembering’ (Eastmond, 2007: 259).…”

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Negotiating paradise lost: Refugee narratives of pre-war Syria – A discursive approach to memory, metaphors and religious identifications

Løland

2019

European Journal of Cultural Studies

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How are social relations and ethno-religious identifications of pre-war Syria remembered and narrated by Syrian refugees in exile? Crossing the abyss of war, and negotiated through the shifting times and sites of forced displacement, this article addresses Syrian refugee narratives as discursive practices that attempt to reclaim an irretrievably lost terrain. The metaphor of a ‘paradise lost’ is an unmistakable component of the Syrian refugees’ stories, illustrating multiple understandings of ‘paradise’ in which memories of the past gain a particularly idealized character. At the same time, however, and to some extent belying this metaphor, there are traces of tension-filled undercurrents that call for a plural reading of the past. Discussed within a theoretical framework of memory, metaphors and religious identifications, the empirical analysis highlights two narrative themes: (1) coexistence and diversity: narratives of intercultural and inter-religious relations and (2) living under authoritarian rule: narratives of fear and compliance. Leading up to the revolution and subsequent civil war, these narratives display the ambivalent ways in which Syrian refugees conceptualize the past.

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Introduction: Memories on the Move—Experiencing Mobility, Rethinking the Past

Cited by 6 publications

References 27 publications

Inmigración y memoria social en Berisso (Argentina) Un análisis de los lugares de memoria, las prácticas conmemorativas y los objetos ligados a la inmigración ultramarina

Inmigración y memoria social en Berisso (Argentina) Un análisis de los lugares de memoria, las prácticas conmemorativas y los objetos ligados a la inmigración ultramarina

A Bigger Prison

Negotiating paradise lost: Refugee narratives of pre-war Syria – A discursive approach to memory, metaphors and religious identifications

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