by Davi de Carvalho Malheiros, Dyname laboratory (UMR7367) - European Dynamics of the University of Strasbourg (France)

BelMix Seminar Series 2022

"In this presentation, I will present my research findings from my PhD thesis on migrant resistance. Starting from the concepts of transnationalism (Boccagni, 2012), resistance (De Certeau, 1990 ; Payet, 2014, Salazar Parreñas, 2015) and oppression (Pfefferkorn, 2007), this research looked at the practices of Filipino migrant women in Germany while resisting oppression stemming from their structural position within various hierarchies (of gender, space, generation, class, nationality, etc.). Being practices that are shaped by different logics, possibilities and constraints according to both migrant’s structural position in the home society and in the host society (that same practices reveal) and to the paradoxes (as tenets contrary to received opinion), and contradictions (a proposition […] that asserts or implies both the truth and falsity of something) (Merriam Webster, 2022) that originate from the same position (and that same practices also unveil), they equally disclose Filipino migrant lives in Germany as situated within transnational but still “State centered” (and constrained) spaces. A sort of “spatial understanding” of concept of resistance is what stands out of Filipino women’s migrant practices of opposing oppression, as last concept proves to refer not only to the tactics of the weak (De Certeau, 1990) or to the acts of conscious social actors (Payet, 2014) for circumventing consequences of structural constraints but equally to the spatial dynamics (and their logics) molding what Filipino migrant women in Germany really do to face both locally and transnationally anchored difficulties of (daily) life. In addition to this, what come out of same practices are other possibilities of understanding current contexts of Filipino women migration to Germany following important research on the matter by Andrea Lauser in 2004.

Bibliography

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Merriam Webster. (s.d.). Paradox. Dans Merriam Webster en ligne. Consulté le 30/02/2021 sur https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/paradox

Merriam Webster. (s.d.). Contradiction. Dans Merriam Webster en ligne. Consulté le 30/02/2021 sur https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/contradiction

Payet, Jean Paul. (2014). Résistance (le concept de). Dans A. Bihr & R. Pfefferkorn (dir), Dictionnaire des inégalités (p.342-343). Paris : Armand Colin

Pfefferkorn, R. (2007). Inégalités et rapports sociaux : rapports de classes, rapport de sexes. Paris : La Dispute.

Salazar Parreñas, R. (2015). Servants of globalization: migration and domestic work (2e éd.). California : Stanford University press. "

Davi de Carvalho Malheiros, doctoral student researcher attached to the Dyname laboratory (UMR7367) - European Dynamics of the University of Strasbourg (France) Main research interests: gender and migration, Philippine migration, resistance and migration, transnationalism

Wednesday 23th february 2022

Event : Online on Zoom

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