Unas cuantas cosas. Objetos biográficos y experiencias migratorias

Identifier:  TDX:2693

Handle: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11797/TDX2693

Authors:  Alonso Rey, Natalia Libertad

Abstract:
A FEW THINGS. BIOGRAPHICAL OBJECTS AND MIGRATORY EXPERIENCES. This dissertation inquiries into the migratory experience from an in-depth look into the relationship between subjects and their biographical objects. The methodology is qualitative, follows the ethnographic method and is based on observations and biography-oriented interviews. I worked with 26 adults, 14 men and 12 women, from different origins and years of migratory experience. They had migrated in the context of diverse administrative/mobility regimes and means of transport. These elements were considered in the analysis. The migratory moment is investigated considering the relationship and active participation of both objects and subjects. To this end, the object-selection process is both described and analyzed considering the relationship between objects’ and subjects’ biographies and the social relations they connect. Objects are analyzed in their materiality, symbolic dimension and as agents, alongside subjectivation processes. Based on these elements, biographical objects’ relation with subjects is key to understand the migratory experience. Methodological and theoretical discussions are also raised, reflecting on the specificity of working ethnographically from subject-object relationship.