Call for contributions for Bulletin #22: Identities and mobilities in the processes of Latin American popular globalization

CLACSO Working Group on Migration and South-South Borders
Border Transit Bulletin
Year 4 – Number #22 Identities and mobilities in the processes of Latin American popular globalization
July-August 2024

The Tran(s)Fronteriza Bulletin is a bimonthly publication of the CLACSO Working Group on Migration and South-South Borders.

Presentation

One of the most significant transformations in 21st-century migrations is the increasingly visible incursion of a diversity of popular actors who manage to insert themselves into the interstices of global trade and production.

Faced with the fragmentation and precariousness of labor imposed by neoliberal economic hegemony, various communities in the rural and urban universe have generated numerous micro-enterprises from a conglomerate of proximity links and cultural capital, causing a sui generis transnationalism.

In recent years, millions of textile workshops, informal businesses, and domestic work have proliferated in the Global South. While these have shaped popular urban life, they have transcended the local sphere, giving rise to transnational migrant communities, such as the Oaxacan community in California (United States), the Bolivian community in Buenos Aires (Argentina), among many others.

This phenomenon, which some researchers consider a “popular globalization”, opens a broad critical perspective, as it has placed at the center of the debate the diversity of the spaces involved in these neo-communities, as well as the need for new theoretical frameworks to overcome “methodological nationalism” in migration studies and the importance of building new narratives that give greater centrality to the protagonists.

In this context, the CLACSO Working Group on Borders and South-South Migration invites submissions of research proposals—or partial results thereof—for issue #22, “Identities and Mobilities in the Processes of Popular Globalization in Latin America,” of the journal Tran(s)Fronteriza . This issue focuses on understanding and problematizing the transformations of these globalization processes, emphasizing the material and identity dimensions of their protagonists. Research on the formation of transcontinental networks of popular trade is also of interest.

For the preparation of the newsletter, it is suggested to take into account the incorporation of the following inputs:

The newsletter is designed as a dissemination tool to bring the results of specialized research closer to a more general audience (mainly high school and undergraduate students), so a pedagogical writing style is requested, preferably in the first person.
Priority is given to contributions that use ethnographic records and emphasize methodological description. Digital ethnographies are also welcome.
Consider the changes in identity affiliation processes that arise as a result of the mobility dynamics of actors in popular globalization.
To record different manifestations of social and political agency by popular sectors that manage to become intertwined in the interstices of globalization.
Analyze the impact of social media networks on the formation of transnational links of trade and popular production.
To propose theoretical and methodological constructs that help in the understanding of these processes of popular globalization.

Submission of contributions: until 25 of July

This issue is coordinated by

Héctor Parra García (IIS-UNAM)
Fernando Rabossi (DAC and PPGSA-UFRJ)
Nico Tassi (CIDES-UMSA)

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