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Comparative moves: The pursuit of value and belonging in transnational migration toward a “better life”
Journal Title
Ethnic and Racial Studies
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Language
English
Country
United Kingdom
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Abstract
Moving beyond comparison as a method that juxtaposes community-based case studies, this article explores how migrants with different backgrounds and trajectories themselves deploy comparison in their everyday lives and decision-making. To do so, it examines Cuban and Ecuadorian migrants’ comparative appraisal of different places, values, and visions of a “better life”, shedding new light on the motives, stakes, and effects of their endeavors. The proposed approach advances understandings of how migrants cope with the dominant comparative scripts and hierarchies that migration activates, notably by either conforming to, subverting, or unraveling them. Also highlighted are comparison’s entanglements with questions of choice, belonging, and its experiential and emotional effects, including the suffering it elicits. A multi-dimensional exploration of how comparison plays out among migrants opens research avenues related to transnational living and people’s pursuits of a “better life”, while also raising ethical and epistemological questions for comparative research on migration and beyond.
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Keywords
Migration,Comparison,“better life”,Value,Belonging,Decision-making
Fields of Science and Technology Classification
- Sociology - Social Sciences
- Anthropology - Social Sciences
Funding Records
| Funding Reference | Funding Entity |
|---|---|
| SFRH/BPD/66483/2009 | Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia |
| 759649 | Comissão Europeia |
| PZ00P1 147946 | Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung |
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