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TOLOSA, Constanza. Construyendo pertenencia puntada a puntada: Migrantes latinoamericanas en Nueva Zelanda. Cuad. Cent. Estud. Diseñ. Comun., Ensayos [online]. 2022, n.111, pp.56-76.  Epub 01-Jun-2022. ISSN 1853-3523.  http://dx.doi.org/10.18682/cdc.vi111.4231.

Set within the global context of contemporary human migration and high degrees of mobility, this multimodal research study examined how narratives and textile craft-making function as means of expressing the overlapping themes of identity, belonging and migration for a group of Latin American women migrants in New Zealand. In New Zealand, the Latin American migrant community is relatively small (less than 1% of the population at over 13,000 individuals in the 2013 census), yet varied as it includes migrants who have arrived to the country in separate waves since the 1970s. As such, it is a group that is heterogeneous with people from different countries who have migrated to New Zealand for different reasons and with different sets of skills and aspirations. Their stories of migration have been sparsely documented; in particular, little is known about the migrant experiences of Latin American women migrants.

The study was guided by two overarching goals: to understand how migrant women’s identities are represented in their narratives of settlement and to explore how the women’s stories are represented through textile craft-making. To address the first goal the study addressed issues such as the relationship between the women’s migrant narratives and the construction and negotiation of their migrant identities. Previous studies of migrant identities have investigated how individuals express social relations with regard to new places and space taking account of the multiplicity of languages, social groups, and urban communities of practice existing in their new context (Blommaert 2010; Pennycook, 2007). With the acknowledgement that stories can be told through different media, the study also engages with the expression of identity through textile craft. Artistic manifestation can foster emotional expression, facilitate the release of images or concepts through multimodal representation, and stimulate cognitive engagement (Moxley & Feen-Calligan, 2015). Furthermore, story-telling through artistic expression can may translate into social action, fundamental for the migrants (Rawdon & Moxley, 2016).

Palabras clave : migration; identity; narratives; textile craft-making; New Zealand..

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