E-Mail: eva.youkhana(at)uni-bonn.de

Tel.: 0049-(0)-228-734901

Research project

Citizenship and Belonging of Latin American migrants in Spain: place making processes in a 'barrio' of Madrid

Giving the example of Latin American migrants in Madrid and the changing social and political dynamics after the recent economic crisis, the project looks at the migrant’s social and political positioning in certain districts and public spaces and in how they produce new belongings or sustain borne ones. Since public spaces carry symbolic meaning and serve as important references for the construction of ethnicity, citizenship and belonging, the focus lies on the materialization and negotiation of attachments in these locations (place-making). In order to integrate the local observations into the dynamic social contexts, a spatial conception that is based on relational and network terms will be used. Against the backdrop of ongoing public discourses, which reduce migrants to their role as receivers of integration programs and partitioning measures, the actors-oriented investigation is centered on personal initiatives, daily practices and biographies of migrants. 

Education

1998-2005 Phd in Sociology, University of Frankfurt, Germany

1990-1996 Master of Arts in Social Anthropology (focus on Latin America and Migration), New Spanish Literature, Sociology, University of Cologne, Germany                      

1987-1990 Bachelor Degree in Cultural Anthropology (focus Latin America, Mexico, ethnic minorities), Spanish and Geography, University of Bonn, Germany

1997-1998 Scholarship of the Carl Duisberg Society

Scientific experience

since 2010 Research fellow (Post-doc) at the Research Network for Latin America – Ethnicity, Citizenship and Belonging at the University of Bonn

2009 Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Development Research (ZEF) and Interdisciplinary Latin America Center, University of Bonn

2001-2003 Research Assistant (Phd) at the Centre for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn

Work experience

Since 2004 Creation and regular update of ‘Landesinformationsportal Mexiko’ online: liportal.inwent.org/mexiko.html

2000-2005 Tutor for Expatriates to Mexico at InWEnt

Stay abroad

2003-2009 Several field trips to Ghana and Burkina Faso

1997-1998 Field research in Mexico City and in a Maya community in Yuacatán

Publications

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