Imaginaries of Migration : : Life Stories of Mexican Migrants in Germany / / Yolanda López García.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus PP Package 2021 Part 2
• VerfasserIn: López García, Yolanda,
• Place / Publishing House: Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Kultur und soziale Praxis
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (298 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Structural Overview --; Acknowledgements --; Introduction --; 1 Theoretical Lens --; 2 Methodology --; 3 Re-imagining Life through Migration --; 4 Re-imagining Mexicanness --; 5 Re-imagining Change and Belonging: Agency between Dominant and Emergent Imaginaries --; Conclusions --; References --; List of Figures/Tables --; List of Abbreviations --; Appendices
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783839458419; 9783110743357; 9783110754001; 9783110753776; 9783110754186; 9783110753967; 9783111025100; 9783110767315
• DOI: 10.1515/9783839458419?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Yolanda López García.

How do Mexican migrants in Germany perceive themselves and their lives? Innovatively combining theories of interculturality and social imaginaries, Yolanda López García uses the anthropological method of life stories to investigate the understudied area of Mexican migration to Germany. She discusses areas such as quality of life as a motivation for migration, the role of banal nationalism in imaginaries, the dynamic subjective re-construction of Mexicanness, and the process of (imagined) »Germanisation«. Yolanda López García ultimately argues that individuals, as social agents, engage with and construct new emerging imaginaries, which may be viewed as important engines of social change.