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Hypatia, 2022
This article provides a Latin American feminist critique of early decolonial theories focusing on... more This article provides a Latin American feminist critique of early decolonial theories focusing on the work of Aníbal Quijano and Enrique Dussel. Although decolonial theorists refer to Chicana feminist scholarship in their work, the work of Latin American feminists is ignored. However, the author argues that Chicana feminist theory cannot stand in for Latin American feminist theory because “lo latinoamericano” gets lost in translation. Latin American feminists must do their own theoretical work. Central to the critique of the use of gender in decolonial theory is an analysis of the social pacts among white capitalists and white working-class men that not only exclude white women but make citizenship and democracy impossible for men and women of color in the metropolis as well as in the colony. By revealing the nexus between gender, race, and democracy, not only is the coloniality of gender apparent, but also the coloniality of democracy.
Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, 2023
Gender - Zeitschrift für Geschlecht, Kultur und Gesellschaft, 2024
The decolonial turn resonates not only in gender studies but across the humanities and arts. Whil... more The decolonial turn resonates not only in gender studies but across the humanities and arts. While research and teaching increasingly align with decolonization and intersectional perspectives, we understand this as more than intellectual tasks, rather as a call for transformative action with tangible symbolic and material consequences. Taking into account transnational feminist discourses, this article explores what we can do in practice in an institutional context that fosters structures of coloniality and invisibilization of knowledge otherwise in academic knowledge production. Addressing this issue requires an understanding of marginalizing structures on a meta-level and keeping an eye on a less observed micro-level: our own part in the process of academic knowledge production, understanding these dynamics as part of a broader interconnected framework of decolonial actions that emphasizes communal responsibility and comprehensive partnerships.
Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, 2022
Grün Frauen*forscherin , 2022
Before reading this today you might have had a cup of coffee, or perhaps a chocolate bar. ln the ... more Before reading this today you might have had a cup of coffee, or perhaps a chocolate bar. ln the hills of Central Sulawesi in lndonesia we grow coffee and cacao plants. We also grow rice. Over the past 7 years, we feel an increasing sense of change. My father, may he rest in peace now, had not seen such rains and such droughts. We cannot predict anymore when the rainy season will end and when the wet season will start. ln 2013 it was so hot and dry that the rice stocks-full with flowers in the previous weekswithered. The grains were too small to survive and they shrunk to dust. ...
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How can anthropologists further problematize hierarchies of knowledge production that are haunting the discipline? Based on her PhD trajectory and research on environment and (im)mobilities in Sulawesi, Indonesia, Daniela Paredes Grijalva argues for advancing practices of collaboration.
Resumen En el contexto de importantes flujos migratorios, el presente trabajo plantea cómo las pe... more Resumen En el contexto de importantes flujos migratorios, el presente trabajo plantea cómo las personas mi-grantes y sus familias gestionan entre los sistemas formales de Seguridad Social y las estrategias familiares de protección debido al limitado acceso o a la insuficiente cobertura de seguridad social. Además, identifica algunas de las políticas públicas del Estado ecuatoriano para amparar a su pobla-ción migrante, así como los convenios internacionales vigentes para fomentar la portabilidad de de-rechos de esta población. Los lazos sociales y el Estado de origen juegan un papel protagónico y se evidencia el despliegue de estrategias que combinan lo formal y lo informal. A nivel macro, proble-matiza el nexo migración-desarrollo al señalar la organización de protección y reproducción social entre países. Palabras clave migración transnacional, políticas públicas, seguridad social, migración ecuatoriana, protección social, repro-ducción social, desarrollo.
Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies, 2020
After the Tsunami represents an in-depth study of survivors of the 2004 tsunami in the badly-hit ... more After the Tsunami represents an in-depth study of survivors of the 2004 tsunami in the badly-hit Indonesian province of Aceh. Annemarie Samuels interrogates disaster narratives and the efforts of survivors to remake everyday life in the midst of destruction, loss, humanitarian aid, and political change after decades of an armed conflict that was finally settled in August 2005. The book focuses on how people speak, or remain silent, about the tsunami and its aftermath, and adds important insights to the anthropological study of disasters by exploring how subjectivities are constructed through disaster narratives. Samuels presents her rich ethnographic material and interview excerpts, which were gathered in a period of more than ten years, in a clear and accessible language. This clarity is also reflected in the structure of the book. Its five chapters are organized in a rather linear time fashion, starting with before the tsunami, and finishing with Acehnese speculations about a futu...
MONDI MIGRANTI
With a transnational perspective, this ethnography of Ecuadorian migrants in Vienna and their fam... more With a transnational perspective, this ethnography of Ecuadorian migrants in Vienna and their families in Ecuador focuses on how access to health care, old age, and social security are arranged for across borders, both through formal and informal channels. The "resource environment" is used as a tool to identify services and channels for transnational social protection. Applying the tool to empirical data exposes a series of practices and actors which challenge neatly cut categories. While it allows mapping dissimilar services and actors, it has limits in differentiating between service provision with the financing. This distinction reveals the importance of individual citizen's private money. Thus, although the state may appear at the forefront of the protection of its citizens abroad, a tendency of self-responsibilisation in and outside Ecuador is evident.
Ecuadorian migrants in Austria negotiate with state and non-state actors to guarantee social prot... more Ecuadorian migrants in Austria negotiate with state and non-state actors to guarantee social protection for themselves and their families. Through qualitative interviews and non-local ethnography, the transformations in state attempts, new policies, protection gaps, and citizen strategies are identified and analyzed as a person's resource environment for transnational social protection. Although the shift in the Ecuadorian government's legal framework regarding social rights extension is significant and is related to international and supranational agreements, private individuals, and particularly women, are still rendered the main channels through which healthcare, care work and social security are guaranteed. The inability to transport rights in this sphere implies an unequal global share of workers' social reproduction.
SOJOURN: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia, 2021
This note reflects on how measures to face the pandemic have affected how we conduct fieldwork. I... more This note reflects on how measures to face the pandemic have affected how we conduct fieldwork. In my case, COVID-19 arrived just as I began my doctoral project on how mobilities are shaped in post-disaster Central Sulawesi, Indonesia, which was hit by a devastating earthquake and tsunami in September 2018. Studying the disaster and its aftermath as a focusing event (Birkland and Warnement 2014, 60), I had planned to identify pre-existing social vulnerabilities and how these relate to the articulation of power asymmetries. In order to understand how social, political, economic, environmental and cultural interactions give shape to what we call a disaster, I planned to use archival sources on population movements, policy documents on land use, and — most importantly — the classic ethnographic methods of participant-observation, interviews and focal group discussions with people affected by the disaster and the experts involved in the pre- and post-disaster landscape. The pandemic, however, has translated into an impossibility of travel and uncertainty. In this piece I share my reflections on such circumstances.
Frauen*solidarität , 2021
In September 2018, a powerful earthquake and tsunami struck the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. Mo... more In September 2018, a powerful earthquake and tsunami struck the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. More than 1.200 people were confirmed dead, many of whom were swept away by the huge waves. But disasters are not ‘natural’. The ways we inhabit space matter. What voices are heard before and after a disaster? How could spatial planning prevent disasters? Two women on different continents tackle these questions in a conversation. Disasters are particularly harmful to women and 2018 was no exception. Women are the primary caregivers for children, the elderly and vulnerable groups. So when disaster strikes they have to look after their own survival and that of others. In planning our settlements—be they temporary or permanent—these factors need to be considered. What are the differential needs of people who will use the spaces? If women aren’t part of that conversation, of spatial planning and decision-making, how can we know their needs? It is important to amplify women’s voices, especially indigenous women who carry generations of knowledge about living in a place. In Indonesia, patriarchal and hierarchical ways of thinking dominate disaster management regulations, often relegating women to a secondary role. In the Central Sulawesi region, we see that while there are encounters with the state, initiatives on the ground become realities thanks to strong female leadership and their tireless will.
Routed- Migration & (Im)mobility Magazine, 2021
This issue (17) of Routed looks at the Language of Migration through short pieces focusing on spe... more This issue (17) of Routed looks at the Language of Migration through short pieces focusing on specific terms. In ‘Technically not a ‘climate refugee’ a brief overview of the emerging field of study on environmental migration is sketched. From ‘environmentally displaced persons’ to ‘climate refugees’ or ‘environmental migrants’, popular news media have used a variety of terms to describe a phenomenon that is often oversimplified or misunderstood. That is: the environmental impact of climate change will affect the livelihoods and lives of people around the world, and eventually their (im)mobilities. Some may choose or need to move away from their homes; others may stay. For this oft-cited, yet thoroughly diverse experience, the terminology and the numbers have been key centres of debate. While Homo sapiens has always been on the move, only from 1985, with Essam El-Hinnawi’s coining of the term ‘environmental refugees’, did the field of climate change as a cause of migration develop into a sphere of research. In the 1990s and 2000s, ‘alarmists’ and ‘sceptics’ disagreed over estimates of 150 million ‘climate refugees’ spilling across borders by 2050. Sceptics said these numbers did more harm than good, misrepresenting the realities of people who would mostly move internally and for multiple reasons causing a range of movements from forced to voluntary. Despite these efforts to diversify narratives, alarmist voices persist in today’s milieu. In this terminological minefield it remains a challenge to holistically situate people’s experiences, a challenge that has recently led to a turn in discussing (im)mobilities in the context of environmental change. Empirical evidence points to people who strategically employ legal terms such as victims in order to claim their rights in their interactions with the state, while simultaneously resisting a narrative of passiveness and victimhood when they self-identify as survivors.
Boletín de Investigación del Observatorio Europeo de Gerontomigraciones, Jul 20, 2017
http://www.ror-n.org/-blog/thinking-of-environmental-migration-through-translocality-and-mobilities, 2020
Millions of "climate refugees" fleeing drought on their way to Europe or Pacific islanders left w... more Millions of "climate refugees" fleeing drought on their way to Europe or Pacific islanders left with no sovereign territory as sea level rises. Does this sound familiar? Certainly such imagery representing the "human face of climate change" has been successful in gaining public attention to urge immediate action. At the same time, national security policymakers and thinktanks in the receiving countries tend to perceive such mass migration as a threat. Following this securitization logic, nation states see the need to protect themselves against it.
Mondi Migranti, 2019
With a transnational perspective, this ethnography of Ecuadorian migrants in Vienna and their fam... more With a transnational perspective, this ethnography of Ecuadorian migrants in Vienna and their families in Ecuador focuses on how access to health care, old age, and social security are arranged for across borders, both through formal and informal channels. The "resource environment" is used as a tool to identify services and channels for transnational social protection. Applying the tool to empirical data exposes a series of practices and actors which challenge neatly cut categories. While it allows mapping dissimilar services and actors, it has limits in differentiating between service provision with the financing. This distinction reveals the importance of individual citizen's private money. Thus, although the state may appear at the forefront of the protection of its citizens abroad, a tendency of self-responsibilisation in and outside Ecuador is evident.
Ponencia III Congreso Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales, 2015
This work analyzes the scope of social protection policies, particularly from the Ecuadorian Stat... more This work analyzes the scope of social protection policies, particularly from the Ecuadorian State, to which Ecuadorian migrants in Vienna and Madrid have access to, as well as to the individual strategies that they develop to guarantee their social protection as well as that of their family through transnational practices of care.
The analysis begins with the fact that due to the 2008 global financial meltdown and after at least 10 years of the accelerated Ecuadorian migratory flow towards Europe, many people who arrived to Spain have had to move to other destinations within the European space, such as the case of Austria. Thus the lives of thousands of Ecuadorians come about in a transnational social space which crosses several national borders, questioning the scope of national social protection systems, those of Ecuador as well as those of destination countries while contrasting it to the agency of Ecuadorian migrants and their social networks.
GIGAPP Estudios Working Papers (ISSN 2174‐9515), 2017
Resumen En el contexto de importantes flujos migratorios, el presente trabajo plantea cómo las pe... more Resumen En el contexto de importantes flujos migratorios, el presente trabajo plantea cómo las personas mi-grantes y sus familias gestionan entre los sistemas formales de Seguridad Social y las estrategias familiares de protección debido al limitado acceso o a la insuficiente cobertura de seguridad social. Además, identifica algunas de las políticas públicas del Estado ecuatoriano para amparar a su pobla-ción migrante, así como los convenios internacionales vigentes para fomentar la portabilidad de de-rechos de esta población. Los lazos sociales y el Estado de origen juegan un papel protagónico y se evidencia el despliegue de estrategias que combinan lo formal y lo informal. A nivel macro, proble-matiza el nexo migración-desarrollo al señalar la organización de protección y reproducción social entre países. Palabras clave migración transnacional, políticas públicas, seguridad social, migración ecuatoriana, protección social, repro-ducción social, desarrollo.
ASSA – Austrian Studies in Social Anthropology (ISSN 1815-3704), 2017
The Armenian diaspora, one of the oldest and largest in the world, engages in different ways with... more The Armenian diaspora, one of the oldest and largest in the world, engages in different ways with the homeland. Following global trends, the Armenian state reaches out to diasporas across the globe for social, political and economic participation to contribute to the development of the country. At the same time, individuals and community associations establish particular
networks and arrangements to do their share of caring for the homeland. Ethnographic fieldwork in Vienna revealed two major trends: while Western Armenians donate for, volunteer for or cooperate with the state or institutions, whereas Eastern Armenians send financial and social remittances directly to kin.
Hypatia, 2022
This article provides a Latin American feminist critique of early decolonial theories focusing on... more This article provides a Latin American feminist critique of early decolonial theories focusing on the work of Aníbal Quijano and Enrique Dussel. Although decolonial theorists refer to Chicana feminist scholarship in their work, the work of Latin American feminists is ignored. However, the author argues that Chicana feminist theory cannot stand in for Latin American feminist theory because “lo latinoamericano” gets lost in translation. Latin American feminists must do their own theoretical work. Central to the critique of the use of gender in decolonial theory is an analysis of the social pacts among white capitalists and white working-class men that not only exclude white women but make citizenship and democracy impossible for men and women of color in the metropolis as well as in the colony. By revealing the nexus between gender, race, and democracy, not only is the coloniality of gender apparent, but also the coloniality of democracy.
Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, 2023
Gender - Zeitschrift für Geschlecht, Kultur und Gesellschaft, 2024
The decolonial turn resonates not only in gender studies but across the humanities and arts. Whil... more The decolonial turn resonates not only in gender studies but across the humanities and arts. While research and teaching increasingly align with decolonization and intersectional perspectives, we understand this as more than intellectual tasks, rather as a call for transformative action with tangible symbolic and material consequences. Taking into account transnational feminist discourses, this article explores what we can do in practice in an institutional context that fosters structures of coloniality and invisibilization of knowledge otherwise in academic knowledge production. Addressing this issue requires an understanding of marginalizing structures on a meta-level and keeping an eye on a less observed micro-level: our own part in the process of academic knowledge production, understanding these dynamics as part of a broader interconnected framework of decolonial actions that emphasizes communal responsibility and comprehensive partnerships.
Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, 2022
Grün Frauen*forscherin , 2022
Before reading this today you might have had a cup of coffee, or perhaps a chocolate bar. ln the ... more Before reading this today you might have had a cup of coffee, or perhaps a chocolate bar. ln the hills of Central Sulawesi in lndonesia we grow coffee and cacao plants. We also grow rice. Over the past 7 years, we feel an increasing sense of change. My father, may he rest in peace now, had not seen such rains and such droughts. We cannot predict anymore when the rainy season will end and when the wet season will start. ln 2013 it was so hot and dry that the rice stocks-full with flowers in the previous weekswithered. The grains were too small to survive and they shrunk to dust. ...
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How can anthropologists further problematize hierarchies of knowledge production that are haunting the discipline? Based on her PhD trajectory and research on environment and (im)mobilities in Sulawesi, Indonesia, Daniela Paredes Grijalva argues for advancing practices of collaboration.
Resumen En el contexto de importantes flujos migratorios, el presente trabajo plantea cómo las pe... more Resumen En el contexto de importantes flujos migratorios, el presente trabajo plantea cómo las personas mi-grantes y sus familias gestionan entre los sistemas formales de Seguridad Social y las estrategias familiares de protección debido al limitado acceso o a la insuficiente cobertura de seguridad social. Además, identifica algunas de las políticas públicas del Estado ecuatoriano para amparar a su pobla-ción migrante, así como los convenios internacionales vigentes para fomentar la portabilidad de de-rechos de esta población. Los lazos sociales y el Estado de origen juegan un papel protagónico y se evidencia el despliegue de estrategias que combinan lo formal y lo informal. A nivel macro, proble-matiza el nexo migración-desarrollo al señalar la organización de protección y reproducción social entre países. Palabras clave migración transnacional, políticas públicas, seguridad social, migración ecuatoriana, protección social, repro-ducción social, desarrollo.
Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies, 2020
After the Tsunami represents an in-depth study of survivors of the 2004 tsunami in the badly-hit ... more After the Tsunami represents an in-depth study of survivors of the 2004 tsunami in the badly-hit Indonesian province of Aceh. Annemarie Samuels interrogates disaster narratives and the efforts of survivors to remake everyday life in the midst of destruction, loss, humanitarian aid, and political change after decades of an armed conflict that was finally settled in August 2005. The book focuses on how people speak, or remain silent, about the tsunami and its aftermath, and adds important insights to the anthropological study of disasters by exploring how subjectivities are constructed through disaster narratives. Samuels presents her rich ethnographic material and interview excerpts, which were gathered in a period of more than ten years, in a clear and accessible language. This clarity is also reflected in the structure of the book. Its five chapters are organized in a rather linear time fashion, starting with before the tsunami, and finishing with Acehnese speculations about a futu...
MONDI MIGRANTI
With a transnational perspective, this ethnography of Ecuadorian migrants in Vienna and their fam... more With a transnational perspective, this ethnography of Ecuadorian migrants in Vienna and their families in Ecuador focuses on how access to health care, old age, and social security are arranged for across borders, both through formal and informal channels. The "resource environment" is used as a tool to identify services and channels for transnational social protection. Applying the tool to empirical data exposes a series of practices and actors which challenge neatly cut categories. While it allows mapping dissimilar services and actors, it has limits in differentiating between service provision with the financing. This distinction reveals the importance of individual citizen's private money. Thus, although the state may appear at the forefront of the protection of its citizens abroad, a tendency of self-responsibilisation in and outside Ecuador is evident.
Ecuadorian migrants in Austria negotiate with state and non-state actors to guarantee social prot... more Ecuadorian migrants in Austria negotiate with state and non-state actors to guarantee social protection for themselves and their families. Through qualitative interviews and non-local ethnography, the transformations in state attempts, new policies, protection gaps, and citizen strategies are identified and analyzed as a person's resource environment for transnational social protection. Although the shift in the Ecuadorian government's legal framework regarding social rights extension is significant and is related to international and supranational agreements, private individuals, and particularly women, are still rendered the main channels through which healthcare, care work and social security are guaranteed. The inability to transport rights in this sphere implies an unequal global share of workers' social reproduction.
SOJOURN: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia, 2021
This note reflects on how measures to face the pandemic have affected how we conduct fieldwork. I... more This note reflects on how measures to face the pandemic have affected how we conduct fieldwork. In my case, COVID-19 arrived just as I began my doctoral project on how mobilities are shaped in post-disaster Central Sulawesi, Indonesia, which was hit by a devastating earthquake and tsunami in September 2018. Studying the disaster and its aftermath as a focusing event (Birkland and Warnement 2014, 60), I had planned to identify pre-existing social vulnerabilities and how these relate to the articulation of power asymmetries. In order to understand how social, political, economic, environmental and cultural interactions give shape to what we call a disaster, I planned to use archival sources on population movements, policy documents on land use, and — most importantly — the classic ethnographic methods of participant-observation, interviews and focal group discussions with people affected by the disaster and the experts involved in the pre- and post-disaster landscape. The pandemic, however, has translated into an impossibility of travel and uncertainty. In this piece I share my reflections on such circumstances.
Frauen*solidarität , 2021
In September 2018, a powerful earthquake and tsunami struck the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. Mo... more In September 2018, a powerful earthquake and tsunami struck the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. More than 1.200 people were confirmed dead, many of whom were swept away by the huge waves. But disasters are not ‘natural’. The ways we inhabit space matter. What voices are heard before and after a disaster? How could spatial planning prevent disasters? Two women on different continents tackle these questions in a conversation. Disasters are particularly harmful to women and 2018 was no exception. Women are the primary caregivers for children, the elderly and vulnerable groups. So when disaster strikes they have to look after their own survival and that of others. In planning our settlements—be they temporary or permanent—these factors need to be considered. What are the differential needs of people who will use the spaces? If women aren’t part of that conversation, of spatial planning and decision-making, how can we know their needs? It is important to amplify women’s voices, especially indigenous women who carry generations of knowledge about living in a place. In Indonesia, patriarchal and hierarchical ways of thinking dominate disaster management regulations, often relegating women to a secondary role. In the Central Sulawesi region, we see that while there are encounters with the state, initiatives on the ground become realities thanks to strong female leadership and their tireless will.
Routed- Migration & (Im)mobility Magazine, 2021
This issue (17) of Routed looks at the Language of Migration through short pieces focusing on spe... more This issue (17) of Routed looks at the Language of Migration through short pieces focusing on specific terms. In ‘Technically not a ‘climate refugee’ a brief overview of the emerging field of study on environmental migration is sketched. From ‘environmentally displaced persons’ to ‘climate refugees’ or ‘environmental migrants’, popular news media have used a variety of terms to describe a phenomenon that is often oversimplified or misunderstood. That is: the environmental impact of climate change will affect the livelihoods and lives of people around the world, and eventually their (im)mobilities. Some may choose or need to move away from their homes; others may stay. For this oft-cited, yet thoroughly diverse experience, the terminology and the numbers have been key centres of debate. While Homo sapiens has always been on the move, only from 1985, with Essam El-Hinnawi’s coining of the term ‘environmental refugees’, did the field of climate change as a cause of migration develop into a sphere of research. In the 1990s and 2000s, ‘alarmists’ and ‘sceptics’ disagreed over estimates of 150 million ‘climate refugees’ spilling across borders by 2050. Sceptics said these numbers did more harm than good, misrepresenting the realities of people who would mostly move internally and for multiple reasons causing a range of movements from forced to voluntary. Despite these efforts to diversify narratives, alarmist voices persist in today’s milieu. In this terminological minefield it remains a challenge to holistically situate people’s experiences, a challenge that has recently led to a turn in discussing (im)mobilities in the context of environmental change. Empirical evidence points to people who strategically employ legal terms such as victims in order to claim their rights in their interactions with the state, while simultaneously resisting a narrative of passiveness and victimhood when they self-identify as survivors.
Boletín de Investigación del Observatorio Europeo de Gerontomigraciones, Jul 20, 2017
http://www.ror-n.org/-blog/thinking-of-environmental-migration-through-translocality-and-mobilities, 2020
Millions of "climate refugees" fleeing drought on their way to Europe or Pacific islanders left w... more Millions of "climate refugees" fleeing drought on their way to Europe or Pacific islanders left with no sovereign territory as sea level rises. Does this sound familiar? Certainly such imagery representing the "human face of climate change" has been successful in gaining public attention to urge immediate action. At the same time, national security policymakers and thinktanks in the receiving countries tend to perceive such mass migration as a threat. Following this securitization logic, nation states see the need to protect themselves against it.
Mondi Migranti, 2019
With a transnational perspective, this ethnography of Ecuadorian migrants in Vienna and their fam... more With a transnational perspective, this ethnography of Ecuadorian migrants in Vienna and their families in Ecuador focuses on how access to health care, old age, and social security are arranged for across borders, both through formal and informal channels. The "resource environment" is used as a tool to identify services and channels for transnational social protection. Applying the tool to empirical data exposes a series of practices and actors which challenge neatly cut categories. While it allows mapping dissimilar services and actors, it has limits in differentiating between service provision with the financing. This distinction reveals the importance of individual citizen's private money. Thus, although the state may appear at the forefront of the protection of its citizens abroad, a tendency of self-responsibilisation in and outside Ecuador is evident.
Ponencia III Congreso Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales, 2015
This work analyzes the scope of social protection policies, particularly from the Ecuadorian Stat... more This work analyzes the scope of social protection policies, particularly from the Ecuadorian State, to which Ecuadorian migrants in Vienna and Madrid have access to, as well as to the individual strategies that they develop to guarantee their social protection as well as that of their family through transnational practices of care.
The analysis begins with the fact that due to the 2008 global financial meltdown and after at least 10 years of the accelerated Ecuadorian migratory flow towards Europe, many people who arrived to Spain have had to move to other destinations within the European space, such as the case of Austria. Thus the lives of thousands of Ecuadorians come about in a transnational social space which crosses several national borders, questioning the scope of national social protection systems, those of Ecuador as well as those of destination countries while contrasting it to the agency of Ecuadorian migrants and their social networks.
GIGAPP Estudios Working Papers (ISSN 2174‐9515), 2017
Resumen En el contexto de importantes flujos migratorios, el presente trabajo plantea cómo las pe... more Resumen En el contexto de importantes flujos migratorios, el presente trabajo plantea cómo las personas mi-grantes y sus familias gestionan entre los sistemas formales de Seguridad Social y las estrategias familiares de protección debido al limitado acceso o a la insuficiente cobertura de seguridad social. Además, identifica algunas de las políticas públicas del Estado ecuatoriano para amparar a su pobla-ción migrante, así como los convenios internacionales vigentes para fomentar la portabilidad de de-rechos de esta población. Los lazos sociales y el Estado de origen juegan un papel protagónico y se evidencia el despliegue de estrategias que combinan lo formal y lo informal. A nivel macro, proble-matiza el nexo migración-desarrollo al señalar la organización de protección y reproducción social entre países. Palabras clave migración transnacional, políticas públicas, seguridad social, migración ecuatoriana, protección social, repro-ducción social, desarrollo.
ASSA – Austrian Studies in Social Anthropology (ISSN 1815-3704), 2017
The Armenian diaspora, one of the oldest and largest in the world, engages in different ways with... more The Armenian diaspora, one of the oldest and largest in the world, engages in different ways with the homeland. Following global trends, the Armenian state reaches out to diasporas across the globe for social, political and economic participation to contribute to the development of the country. At the same time, individuals and community associations establish particular
networks and arrangements to do their share of caring for the homeland. Ethnographic fieldwork in Vienna revealed two major trends: while Western Armenians donate for, volunteer for or cooperate with the state or institutions, whereas Eastern Armenians send financial and social remittances directly to kin.
III Congreso Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales FLACSO, 2015
2016 Vienna UN Conference – New Approaches for a Peaceful and More Sustainable World, 2016
33. Jahrestagung der österreichischen Lateinamerika-Forschung, 2016
VANDA Vienna Anthropology Days, 2018
VANDA Vienna Anthropology Days, 2020
Entangled Im/Mobilities Conference, 2021
Decolonising Gender and Climate Change in the Global South, University of Leeds, 2022
Asian Cluster Cultural Anthropology, University of Leiden, 2022
12th EuroSEAS Conference, 2022
8th International Symposium of the Journal Antropologi Indonesia
#NoNaturalDisasters Conference, 2022
Traces of the Palu-Koro Expedition, Disaster Channel & Skala, 2022
Federal Climate Center-Hugo Observatory meeting, Royal Observatory of Belgium
Meeting of the Climate and Migration section, Institute for Environment and Human Security Research, United Nations University, 2023
Inaugural Environmental and Climate Mobilities Network Conference, 2023
European Migration and Integration Network IMISCOE Conference, 2024
Institute for Human Geography, University of Liège, Belgium, 2024
Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, 2024
Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, 2016
ASEAS, 2020
After the Tsunami represents an in-depth study of survivors of the 2004 tsunami in the badly-hit ... more After the Tsunami represents an in-depth study of survivors of the 2004 tsunami in the badly-hit Indonesian province of Aceh. Annemarie Samuels interrogates disaster narratives and the efforts of survivors to remake everyday life in the midst of destruction, loss, humanitarian aid, and political change after decades of an armed conflict that was finally settled in August 2005. The book focuses on how people speak, or remain silent, about the tsunami and its aftermath, and adds important insights to the anthropological study of disasters by exploring how subjectivities are constructed through disaster narratives. Samuels presents her rich ethnographic material and interview excerpts, which were gathered in a period of more than ten years, in a clear and accessible language. This clarity is also reflected in the structure of the book. Its five chapters are organized in a rather linear time fashion, starting with before the tsunami, and finishing with Acehnese speculations about a future.
Migrazine, 2020
Reflexionen und Erkenntnisse, die wir in unserem Kollektiv Anticolonial Interventionen in Wien zu... more Reflexionen und Erkenntnisse, die wir in unserem Kollektiv Anticolonial Interventionen in Wien zusammen mit anderen lateinamerikanischen Gruppen während der Organisation vom 12. Oktober in Wien gemacht haben.
This book is a selection of contributions to the ROR-n Blog (2020-2022). 29 authors coming from d... more This book is a selection of contributions to the ROR-n Blog (2020-2022). 29 authors coming from diverse disciplines discuss forced migration-related issues. All 23 contributions offered here were written by academicians, based on informed in-depth research and geared to a wider public. This collection is intended to offer readers a broad panorama of the most important current debates on forced migration within and outside of academia. We hope that it will serve as a historical snapshot of how these debates affect and are affected by the tribulations of the current historical moment.
Frauen*Forscherin – Sommersemester 2017. Lehrveranstaltungsverzeichnis zu feministischen Theorien, Queer- und Gender Studies. Wegführerin durch queer_feministische Gruppen und Räume in Wien. , 2017
The Frauen*Forscherin is a queer_feminist publication that is released every semester by the coll... more The Frauen*Forscherin is a queer_feminist publication that is released every semester by the collective Frauen*Referat of the ÖH Uni Wien. In it, you find a schedule of all lectures that deal with feminist, queer, gender, women*specific, anti-racist, and anti-colonialist topics at the universities in Vienna.
Publisher: Collective Frauen*referat
Editors: Dominique Bauer, Daniela Paredes Grijalva, Sophie Utikal, Heike Bestel, Ezgi Erol