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Creative Resistance
This assignment made me reflect on a seminar I took called “Poetics of the Unsayable”. In this seminar we constantly reflected on experiences that are ‘unsayable’; that is, those experiences that cannot be translated into words because words cannot be found to give justice to the emotions of the experience. Not because there is a…
Tejiendo Redes/Weaving Networks
During the Spring semester, we read AbdouMalique Simone’s article People as Infrastructure: Intersecting Fragments in Johannesburg. Simone, in his article tries to get his readers to think of infrastructure not only in physical terms, but in social terms as well. His ethnography of inner-city Johannesburg suggested to him that due to the unpredictability and provisionality…
Latinos are “better” immigrants (but that doesn’t mean they are “good”)
Paid domestic work mostly belongs to the informal economy and it requires employees to have an individualized relationship with their employer in a very intimate setting. I think that to fully understand the relationship forged between employers and employees, it is necessary to understand the relationship from both sides. By attending SEDOACs workshops, seminars, and…
Immigration and Negotiation of Political and Spatial Rights in Madrid and Back Home
During my time with SEDOAC, I have not heard them explicitly articulate a discourse of “right to the city”. However, one particular thing associated with the “right to the city” that they are very conscious of, is the right to enjoy public spaces without fear. SEDOAC’s battles cannot be isolated from the larger context of…
Organizing The Organized
“Sociologists who study organizations sometimes use the term ‘field’ to describe a set of organizations linked together as competitors and collaborators within a social space devoted to a particular type of action — such as a market for certain products, the pursuit of urban development, or the realm of electoral politics. Agreements struck among the…
The new Centro de Empoderamiento
The second week of June SEDOAC inaugurated the first Center for the Empowerment of Domestic Workers in Madrid.The center was inaugurated in the Usera district in Madrid, where 17% of working women are employed in the domestic sector. Romy Arce, the district councilor, specified that it took two years of negotiations with the Madrid city…
The Right to Exercise Motherhood: The Public/Private Dualism Put To Test.
Last week I assisted to an event organized by Alianza por la Solidaridad titled ‘Participation of female migrants as political subjects’ (translated by me). One of the speakers was Ana Camargo, the person that SEDOAC assigned to be the communitarian psychologist for their new Empowerment Center. One of the themes she covered was transnational motherhood,…
Lavapiés: Multiculturalism, Art, and Gentrification
Right in the middle of Lavapiés sits the church of San Lorenzo. Some say that before the church was constructed, there was a Mosque, others say there was a synagogue (Montero). Contemporarily, San Lorenzo has been called a refuge for many migrants coming from South America. This church has not been exempted from the evolution…
Madrid through a Latin American lens
In many cases, Latin Americans, as soon as they leave their origin country and find themselves abroad, they start to regard each other as ‘brothers’ or ‘sisters’. A somehow inexplicable bond forms where two people that may have loathed each other due to their nationalities back home may find only solidarity between them while living…
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