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2007

Gender

Anthropology

Óscar F. Gil-García

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Migration Politics And Human Rights.Pdf, Óscar G. Gil-García Dec 2006

Migration Politics And Human Rights.Pdf, Óscar G. Gil-García

Óscar F. Gil-García

Forced migration of Guatemalans and their participation in the labor markets of Mexico and the US has led to their categorization as economic migrants. This identification loses sight of the contextual experience of forced migration for more than economic reasons. My research methods apply a cultural analysis that blends feminist ethnography with photography. By distributing single-use color cameras, participants’ have been able to use a visual technological tool in the field and record aspects of their lives of greatest concern. My use of a feminist ethnographic approach aims to challenge the dominant representation of migrants, based on a heteropatriarchical gendered …