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"Since the 2008 financial crisis, complex capital flows have ravaged everyday communities across the globe. Housing in particular has become increasingly precarious. In response, many movements now contest the long-held promises and established terms of the private ownership of housing. Immigrant activism has played an important, if understudied, role in broader national struggles over collective consumption (or role in these movements). In 'Dispossession and Dissent,' Sophie Gonick examines the intersection of homeownership and immigrant activism through an analysis of Spain's anti-evictions movement, now a hallmark for housing struggles across the globe. Madrid was the crucible for Spain's urban planning and policy, its millennial economic boom (1998-2008), and its more recent mobilizations in response to crisis. During the boom, the city also experienced rapid, unprecedented immigration. Through extensive archival and ethnographic research, Gonick uncovers the city's histories of homeownership and immigration to demonstrate the pivotal role of Andean immigrants within this movement, as the first to contest dispossession from mortgage-related foreclosures and evictions. Consequently, they forged a potent politics of dissent, which drew upon migratory experiences and indigenous traditions of activism to contest foreclosures and evictions"--
Immigrants --- South Americans --- Home ownership --- Social movements --- Housing --- Political activity
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This book considers how ideas about blackness travel across the Americas via migration, and media, cultural, and political exchanges. It examines African-descended populations in Latin America and Afro-Latin@s in the United States in order to explore questions of black identity and representation, transnationalism, and diaspora. Afro-Latin@s in Movement explores diverse topics—from popular music to sports to political organizing—to consider the ways that blackness is imagined, embodied, and understood across the Americas. .
Globalization. --- Blacks --- Politics and culture --- Migration --- Culture --- Culture and politics --- Negroes --- Ethnology --- Political aspects --- Ethnology-Latin America. --- Ethnology-Africa. --- Latin American Culture. --- African Culture. --- Latino Culture. --- Global cities --- Globalisation --- Internationalization --- International relations --- Anti-globalization movement --- Ethnology—Latin America. --- Ethnology—Africa. --- Black people --- African Americans --- South Americans --- Afro-Americans --- Black Americans --- Colored people (United States) --- Africans --- Black persons --- Social aspects. --- Migration.
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