CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2018
| Author | Hidalgo Cordero, Kruskaya Cristina |
|---|---|
| Title | Embodying la Latina, la Mestiza and the Forort: Narratives of Anti-Racist Resistance of Latin American Migrant Women in Sweden |
| Summary | This research focuses on the identity negotiations that women with Latin American origin articulate to resist in response to the everyday racism that they face in Sweden. My reflections are based on an archive of thirty-three oral histories that I have conducted in the Swedish cities of Gothenburg, Stockholm and Uppsala. By addressing identity through the focus on racism and intermeshed oppressions, I propose three categories to explore the tensions between the self-identification and the external representation in which these women are involved: la latina, la mestiza, and the förort. Through these three categories of identification I explore the construction of specific forms of gendered racism that women from Latin America are subjected to. Also, I study how those women forge hybrid identities in liminal spaces beyond racial mixture. Finally, I analyze women’s re-appropriation of the stigma that marginalized migrant-populated suburbs face in order to articulate a coalitional identity among other people of color. I draw upon theoretical, methodological and analytical frameworks developed within the fields of oral history, intersectionality, black feminism, decolonial feminism, Chicana feminism, and borderlands theory to position my study as an embodied research that addresses embodied experiences of gendered racism. I engage with shifting boundaries between academic and creative writing in order to transgress the borders of poetic and scholarly. Through my project I aim to reveal how identity is a battleground for articulating both exclusion and resistance. Thus, I argue that mestiza (hybrid) identity provides a powerful conceptual framework to understand how racialized women reclaim spaces and re-signify their existence. Moreover, I also show how mestiza consciousness gives rise to the creation of coalitional identities without homogenization of the multiple positions inside the matrix of domination. |
| Supervisor | Jones-Gailani, Nadia |
| Department | Gender Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2018/hidalgo_kruskaya.pdf |
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