Afromodernity in South America: religion and labour framework in Senegalese transnational migration

Authors

  • Luz Espiro

Keywords:

Senegalese transnational migration, ethnography, Mouridiyyah, street trading, South America

Abstract

This essay contains photographs produced in our ethnography with Senegalese migrants in cities of Argentina (Buenos Aires, Puerto Madryn, La Plata), Brazil (Porto Alegre) and Senegal (Dakar, Touba) from 2012 to 2018. We aim construct narratives others about these agents of modernity that transform the cities of the global south with discourses and practices that are apparently only labor, but deeply religious.

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Author Biography

Luz Espiro

I am a social anthropologist and ethnographer from Argentina. I participate in the Research Group on African Migration and Afro Descendants in Argentina at the National University of La Plata.
I did my PhD on South-South migration, focusing on transnational labour pathways of Senegalese migrants between Senegal and Southern Cone. I conducted ethnographic fieldwork in different regions of Senegal, Argentina and southern Brazil. My current research focuses primarily on African transnational relations, including kinship, Islamic brotherhoods, gender, labour market, and migration policy control in Argentina from a decolonial perspective.
In the end, I am a passionate anthropologist, an advocate of diversity and a fighter against power imbalances.

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Published

2019-06-22

How to Cite

Espiro, L. (2019). Afromodernity in South America: religion and labour framework in Senegalese transnational migration. Fotocronografias, 4(08), 28–41. Retrieved from https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/fotocronografias/article/view/128059

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