Doing ethnography among Latinos in London and Barcelona: languages, genders, and ethnicities
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Victor Corona
Abstract
Based on two ethnographic studies of people of Latin American descent in global cities, this article explores how language, gender, and ethnicity shape field relations, community membership, and data collection. It examines some of the implications of being positioned intersectionally as an outsider or insider of the community, and being sexualised by a male gatekeeper. It suggests that gender roles are a powerful aspect of conducting ethnographic research among Latinos, while pointing to the challenge of dealing with, and potentially contributing to, essentialising discourses in the field. It argues that the notion of ‘being Latino’ is imagined and constructed interactionally and contextually, in reaction to social pressures, as well as local and historical narratives.
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Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Language(s), culture(s), ethnicity(-ies), social class and religious background: intersections in researcher’s identity and ethnography
- Doing ethnography among Latinos in London and Barcelona: languages, genders, and ethnicities
- Preparing the milk and honey: between ethnography and academia as a racially minoritised academic
- Language Choice and Researcher’s Stance in a Multilingual Ethnographic Fieldwork
- Regular Articles
- Does context really collapse in social media interaction?
- Conceptual metonymies and metaphors behind SHUI (WATER) and HUO (FIRE) in ancient and modern Chinese
- Strategy development and cross-linguistic transfer in foreign and first language writing
- Thai university students studying in China: Identity, imagined communities, and communities of practice
