Essays about: "Ricardo Alberto Ortega"

Found 1 essay containing the words Ricardo Alberto Ortega.

  1. 1. Being of Transit: Central American and Mexican Migrants’ Experiences of (Dis)Possession

    University essay from Malmö högskola/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Author : Ricardo Alberto Ortega; [2016]
    Keywords : transit; dispossession; materiality; posthumanist performativity; mobility; violence;

    Abstract : The thesis is based on the ethnographic fieldwork done during February 2015 in a place where aspects of transitory life are configured in an effort to (re)humanize those migrants that have been exposed to harm and (dis)possession, and thus entangled within an undesirable physical reality. Empirical attention is dedicated to the ways and means in which a particular migrant shelter located in the border region of Mexico-US operates and fulfills its purpose. READ MORE