Ignacio Fradejas-García
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 669154 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Ignacio Fradejas-García |
| NOMBRES | Ignacio |
| APELLIDO | Fradejas-García |
| FIRMA | FRADEJAS-GARCÍA I |
| AFILIACIONES | Universitat Autonòma de Barcelona |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2514-0654 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 21 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 17 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 21 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2015 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Into the unknown
Speculating about the migration crisis
In Europe, increased precarity characterises the lives of many people, making crisis-talk especially appealing as a framing mechanism to naturalise anti-migration policies within the EU. In 2020–2021, the EU and the Spanish government proclaimed a migration crisis and immobilised in dehumanising conditions a few thousand African migrants who had just arrived in the Canary Islands. This action was facilitated by narratives of migrant invasion and …
Mobility cause lawyering
This article analyses cause lawyering as a critical form of resistance to uneven European Union (EU) mobility regimes. Grounded in the proclamation of a migration crisis during 2020–21 in the Canary Islands, Spain, when newly arrived racialized migrants in irregular situations faced different types of (im)mobilization during their transits to continental Europe, the article shows that cause lawyering is a significant strategy for disputing exclus…
Infrapolitical mobilities
Precarious migrants must cope with various restrictions and exceptional policies while challenging anti-migrant images and crisis discourses. Using the concept infrapolitical mobilities, this article draws attention to minor acts that resist and/or navigate the constraints imposed by the racialization and criminalization of migrant (im)mobilities. We emphasize the agency and practices performed by migrants and their allies, that, intentionally or…
Mobility rules
In this introductory article, we critically analyze which rules govern human mobility and how mobility regulations and codes are resisted, transgressed, broken, and remade. To play by the rules of mobility means to follow habits and laws governed by social norms and institutional control. Our point of departure is that social and institutional mobility rules both abound and are intertwined and that they are routinely disputed by individuals, grou…
Migrant entrepreneurs in the ‘Farm of Europe’
The so-called ‘sea of plastic’ in Almería, Spain, is a 450km2 area devoted to intensive greenhouse farming managed by 10,000 small farmers who employ a labour force of 50,000 workers, mostly immigrants from Africa and eastern Europe. Romanian immigrants arrived at the beginning of 2000s and have occupied various positions within this agro-industrial district. Some started their own businesses in greenhouse reparation and construction employing fe…
Regímenes de in/movilidad y crisis migratoria en la ruta canaria
En este artículo analizamos los regímenes de in/movilidad producidos en las Islas Canarias como respuesta a un aumento en la llegada no autorizada de personas migrantes por vía marítima desde África del Oeste entre 2018 y 2023. Categorizada en el año 2020 como "crisis migratoria", el gobierno español, de acuerdo con la Unión Europea, intentó inmovilizar a estas personas en las Canarias, contraviniendo las normas que permiten la libre movilidad en…
Palliative accompaniment
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to unprecedented changes in the accompaniment of the sick, the dead, and their loved ones. This article analyses the intertwined accompaniment practices performed by health professionals working in hospitals and nursing homes and by the relatives of those who died or striving during the first few months of the pandemic in Barcelona, Spain. We argue that isolation, fear of contagion, and lack of biomedical professiona…
Labour Mobility and Informality
Post-Weberian definitions see the state–individual relationship as a “do ut des” one. The state grants protection, education, medical care, and its citizens contribute labour, compliance, and taxes. When this does not occur, it is generally accepted that the citizens are deviating from state goals. However, there are cases where lack of compliance stems from the fact that society members do not feel protected by formal structures, and they rely o…
Short Take
Thanks to the latest developments in network-oriented sampling, it is now possible to measure "transnational social fields," or emergent social structures that connect places or regions in different countries. These structures are instrumental in explaining sociocultural phenomena like the emergence of ethnic or demographic enclaves, social and economic remittances, and ethnic identifications. Nevertheless, they have only been mentioned metaphori…
Transnational (Im)mobilities and Informality in Europe
People around the globe rely on informal practices to resist, survive, care and relate to each other beyond the control and coercive presence of institutions and states. In the EU, regimes of mobility at multiple scales affect various people on the move who are pushed into informality in order to acquire social mobility while having to combat border regimes, racialization, inequalities, and state bureaucracies. This text explores how mobilities a…
Informality on Wheels
This article unpacks informal practices related to modernity’s quintessential mobility machine: the car. Based on ethnographic fieldwork among low-wage Romanian immigrants in Spain who maintain transnational connections with their regions of origin in Romania, this paper addresses the role of the automobile system and of informal practices in migrants’ daily work and life mobilities. I contend that informal automobilities are a set of livelihood …
Structural Embeddedness in Transnational Social Fields
In this article we focus on individuals’ structural embeddedness in transnational social fields (TSFs) and examine how this is related to patterns of international mobility. The main argument is that the structure of TSFs matters for (im)mobility trajectories, and thus all actors (migrants, non‐migrants, and returnees) need to be examined as a whole to obtain a deeper understanding of the role of social networks in processes of transnational mobi…
Ethnographies of the coronavirus pandemic
Este texto presenta un número especial dedicado a etnografiar los primeros meses de la pandemia provocada por el virus SARS-CoV-2 y las consecuentes medidas de aislamiento y distancia social. Basados en materiales empíricos recogidos entre marzo y mayo del año 2020, los textos etnográficos muestran con viveza la enorme singularidad de este período. Este momento se ha querido designar como parón o pausa de la sociedad ante la amenaza de una salud …
Introducción
Este texto y la sección especial que introduce tienen un triple objetivo. Por una parte, se intenta describir qué se ha hecho desde la antropología social y cultural en Asturias, tanto a nivel de investigación como de organización formal. Por otro lado, trata de responder a qué se está investigando hoy en día en la región. Por último, se ambiciona conectar estas investigaciones antropológicas hechas en Asturias con la teoría antropológica más act…
Humanitarian remoteness
In response to the Syrian conflict, the biggest humanitarian challenge since the Second World War, aid organisations have set up large‐scale cross‐border operations. Aid convoys and workers within Syria have become targets, forcing most operations to be carried out remotely from the Turkish border city of Gaziantep, a ‘little Aleppo’ hosting more than 300,000 Syrians. This produces a transnational humanitarian social field embedded in historical,…
(Im)mobile workers
This paper explores how the United Nations (UN) system promotes mobilities for some employees while limiting the physical and social mobility of others. To this purpose, we take an ethnographic and comparative approach between four UN duty stations: the UN main offices in Geneva (Switzerland) and Vienna (Austria); and the UN field offices in Goma (DR Congo) and Gaziantep (Turkey). UN workers’ capital in the Bourdieusian sense has different import…
Elusive gender
Este artículo analiza la inclusión del enfoque de género en la operación humanitaria en respuesta al conflicto en el norte de Siria y coordinada desde Turquía bajo el paraguas de Naciones Unidas. La investigación se enmarca en los estudios sobre género y acción humanitaria, además de enlazar con la vindicación de los derechos humanos de las mujeres iniciada por el feminismo. El texto concluye que no existe una comprensión estandarizada de este co…
Revisiting the classics in the 20th anniversary of Perifèria
El texto introductorio de esta sección especial se divide en dos partes. Por un lado, se exponen las motivaciones para proponer una revisita a los clásicos y se introducen los dos textos de la sección especial, llamada “Revisitando a los clásicos”, conectando con la presentación de una nueva sección llamada “Reimpresión”, la cual publicará textos clásicos o actuales de interés para la antropología pero que sean de difícil acceso. Por otro lado, s…
Reflecting the Refuge Crisis
Croatia-Hungary border.Police officers (left) and volunteers (right) organize and help, respectively, a group of thousand refugees getting on a train from Hungary to Austria
Peaceland. Conflict Resolution and the Everyday Politics of International Intervention (Séverine Autesserre)
Desde el cambio de milenio los trabajadores del sector de la ayuda humanitaria y de la cooperación internacional han despertado una respetable atención académica, generando un nuevo corpus que analiza sus problemáticas y prácticas específicas. Peaceland es la metáfora que utiliza la autora de este libro, Séverine Autesserre, para agrupar a la comunidad de práctica transnacional cuyos empleados, llamados peacebuilders, se dedican a la consecución …
Regímenes de in/movilidad y crisis migratoria en la ruta canaria
En este artículo analizamos los regímenes de in/movilidad producidos en las Islas Canarias como respuesta a un aumento en la llegada no autorizada de personas migrantes por vía marítima desde África del Oeste entre 2018 y 2023. Categorizada en el año 2020 como "crisis migratoria", el gobierno español, de acuerdo con la Unión Europea, intentó inmovilizar a estas personas en las Canarias, contraviniendo las normas que permiten la libre movilidad en…
Short Take
Thanks to the latest developments in network-oriented sampling, it is now possible to measure "transnational social fields," or emergent social structures that connect places or regions in different countries. These structures are instrumental in explaining sociocultural phenomena like the emergence of ethnic or demographic enclaves, social and economic remittances, and ethnic identifications. Nevertheless, they have only been mentioned metaphori…
Speculating about the migration crisis
In Europe, increased precarity characterises the lives of many people, making crisis-talk especially appealing as a framing mechanism to naturalise anti-migration policies within the EU. In 2020–2021, the EU and the Spanish government proclaimed a migration crisis and immobilised in dehumanising conditions a few thousand African migrants who had just arrived in the Canary Islands. This action was facilitated by narratives of migrant invasion and …
Migrant entrepreneurs in the ‘Farm of Europe’
The so-called ‘sea of plastic’ in Almería, Spain, is a 450km2 area devoted to intensive greenhouse farming managed by 10,000 small farmers who employ a labour force of 50,000 workers, mostly immigrants from Africa and eastern Europe. Romanian immigrants arrived at the beginning of 2000s and have occupied various positions within this agro-industrial district. Some started their own businesses in greenhouse reparation and construction employing fe…
Structural Embeddedness in Transnational Social Fields
In this article we focus on individuals’ structural embeddedness in transnational social fields (TSFs) and examine how this is related to patterns of international mobility. The main argument is that the structure of TSFs matters for (im)mobility trajectories, and thus all actors (migrants, non‐migrants, and returnees) need to be examined as a whole to obtain a deeper understanding of the role of social networks in processes of transnational mobi…
(Im)mobile workers
This paper explores how the United Nations (UN) system promotes mobilities for some employees while limiting the physical and social mobility of others. To this purpose, we take an ethnographic and comparative approach between four UN duty stations: the UN main offices in Geneva (Switzerland) and Vienna (Austria); and the UN field offices in Goma (DR Congo) and Gaziantep (Turkey). UN workers’ capital in the Bourdieusian sense has different import…
Infrapolitical mobilities
Precarious migrants must cope with various restrictions and exceptional policies while challenging anti-migrant images and crisis discourses. Using the concept infrapolitical mobilities, this article draws attention to minor acts that resist and/or navigate the constraints imposed by the racialization and criminalization of migrant (im)mobilities. We emphasize the agency and practices performed by migrants and their allies, that, intentionally or…
Mobility rules
In this introductory article, we critically analyze which rules govern human mobility and how mobility regulations and codes are resisted, transgressed, broken, and remade. To play by the rules of mobility means to follow habits and laws governed by social norms and institutional control. Our point of departure is that social and institutional mobility rules both abound and are intertwined and that they are routinely disputed by individuals, grou…
Ethnographies of the coronavirus pandemic
Este texto presenta un número especial dedicado a etnografiar los primeros meses de la pandemia provocada por el virus SARS-CoV-2 y las consecuentes medidas de aislamiento y distancia social. Basados en materiales empíricos recogidos entre marzo y mayo del año 2020, los textos etnográficos muestran con viveza la enorme singularidad de este período. Este momento se ha querido designar como parón o pausa de la sociedad ante la amenaza de una salud …
Peaceland. Conflict Resolution and the Everyday Politics of International Intervention (Séverine Autesserre)
Desde el cambio de milenio los trabajadores del sector de la ayuda humanitaria y de la cooperación internacional han despertado una respetable atención académica, generando un nuevo corpus que analiza sus problemáticas y prácticas específicas. Peaceland es la metáfora que utiliza la autora de este libro, Séverine Autesserre, para agrupar a la comunidad de práctica transnacional cuyos empleados, llamados peacebuilders, se dedican a la consecución …
Reflecting the Refuge Crisis
Croatia-Hungary border.Police officers (left) and volunteers (right) organize and help, respectively, a group of thousand refugees getting on a train from Hungary to Austria
Humanitarian remoteness
In response to the Syrian conflict, the biggest humanitarian challenge since the Second World War, aid organisations have set up large‐scale cross‐border operations. Aid convoys and workers within Syria have become targets, forcing most operations to be carried out remotely from the Turkish border city of Gaziantep, a ‘little Aleppo’ hosting more than 300,000 Syrians. This produces a transnational humanitarian social field embedded in historical,…
(Im)mobile workers
This paper explores how the United Nations (UN) system promotes mobilities for some employees while limiting the physical and social mobility of others. To this purpose, we take an ethnographic and comparative approach between four UN duty stations: the UN main offices in Geneva (Switzerland) and Vienna (Austria); and the UN field offices in Goma (DR Congo) and Gaziantep (Turkey). UN workers’ capital in the Bourdieusian sense has different import…
Elusive gender
Este artículo analiza la inclusión del enfoque de género en la operación humanitaria en respuesta al conflicto en el norte de Siria y coordinada desde Turquía bajo el paraguas de Naciones Unidas. La investigación se enmarca en los estudios sobre género y acción humanitaria, además de enlazar con la vindicación de los derechos humanos de las mujeres iniciada por el feminismo. El texto concluye que no existe una comprensión estandarizada de este co…
Revisiting the classics in the 20th anniversary of Perifèria
El texto introductorio de esta sección especial se divide en dos partes. Por un lado, se exponen las motivaciones para proponer una revisita a los clásicos y se introducen los dos textos de la sección especial, llamada “Revisitando a los clásicos”, conectando con la presentación de una nueva sección llamada “Reimpresión”, la cual publicará textos clásicos o actuales de interés para la antropología pero que sean de difícil acceso. Por otro lado, s…
Ethnographies of the coronavirus pandemic
Este texto presenta un número especial dedicado a etnografiar los primeros meses de la pandemia provocada por el virus SARS-CoV-2 y las consecuentes medidas de aislamiento y distancia social. Basados en materiales empíricos recogidos entre marzo y mayo del año 2020, los textos etnográficos muestran con viveza la enorme singularidad de este período. Este momento se ha querido designar como parón o pausa de la sociedad ante la amenaza de una salud …
Introducción
Este texto y la sección especial que introduce tienen un triple objetivo. Por una parte, se intenta describir qué se ha hecho desde la antropología social y cultural en Asturias, tanto a nivel de investigación como de organización formal. Por otro lado, trata de responder a qué se está investigando hoy en día en la región. Por último, se ambiciona conectar estas investigaciones antropológicas hechas en Asturias con la teoría antropológica más act…
Transnational (Im)mobilities and Informality in Europe
People around the globe rely on informal practices to resist, survive, care and relate to each other beyond the control and coercive presence of institutions and states. In the EU, regimes of mobility at multiple scales affect various people on the move who are pushed into informality in order to acquire social mobility while having to combat border regimes, racialization, inequalities, and state bureaucracies. This text explores how mobilities a…
Informality on Wheels
This article unpacks informal practices related to modernity’s quintessential mobility machine: the car. Based on ethnographic fieldwork among low-wage Romanian immigrants in Spain who maintain transnational connections with their regions of origin in Romania, this paper addresses the role of the automobile system and of informal practices in migrants’ daily work and life mobilities. I contend that informal automobilities are a set of livelihood …
Structural Embeddedness in Transnational Social Fields
In this article we focus on individuals’ structural embeddedness in transnational social fields (TSFs) and examine how this is related to patterns of international mobility. The main argument is that the structure of TSFs matters for (im)mobility trajectories, and thus all actors (migrants, non‐migrants, and returnees) need to be examined as a whole to obtain a deeper understanding of the role of social networks in processes of transnational mobi…
Palliative accompaniment
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to unprecedented changes in the accompaniment of the sick, the dead, and their loved ones. This article analyses the intertwined accompaniment practices performed by health professionals working in hospitals and nursing homes and by the relatives of those who died or striving during the first few months of the pandemic in Barcelona, Spain. We argue that isolation, fear of contagion, and lack of biomedical professiona…
Labour Mobility and Informality
Post-Weberian definitions see the state–individual relationship as a “do ut des” one. The state grants protection, education, medical care, and its citizens contribute labour, compliance, and taxes. When this does not occur, it is generally accepted that the citizens are deviating from state goals. However, there are cases where lack of compliance stems from the fact that society members do not feel protected by formal structures, and they rely o…
Short Take
Thanks to the latest developments in network-oriented sampling, it is now possible to measure "transnational social fields," or emergent social structures that connect places or regions in different countries. These structures are instrumental in explaining sociocultural phenomena like the emergence of ethnic or demographic enclaves, social and economic remittances, and ethnic identifications. Nevertheless, they have only been mentioned metaphori…
Migrant entrepreneurs in the ‘Farm of Europe’
The so-called ‘sea of plastic’ in Almería, Spain, is a 450km2 area devoted to intensive greenhouse farming managed by 10,000 small farmers who employ a labour force of 50,000 workers, mostly immigrants from Africa and eastern Europe. Romanian immigrants arrived at the beginning of 2000s and have occupied various positions within this agro-industrial district. Some started their own businesses in greenhouse reparation and construction employing fe…
Regímenes de in/movilidad y crisis migratoria en la ruta canaria
En este artículo analizamos los regímenes de in/movilidad producidos en las Islas Canarias como respuesta a un aumento en la llegada no autorizada de personas migrantes por vía marítima desde África del Oeste entre 2018 y 2023. Categorizada en el año 2020 como "crisis migratoria", el gobierno español, de acuerdo con la Unión Europea, intentó inmovilizar a estas personas en las Canarias, contraviniendo las normas que permiten la libre movilidad en…
Speculating about the migration crisis
In Europe, increased precarity characterises the lives of many people, making crisis-talk especially appealing as a framing mechanism to naturalise anti-migration policies within the EU. In 2020–2021, the EU and the Spanish government proclaimed a migration crisis and immobilised in dehumanising conditions a few thousand African migrants who had just arrived in the Canary Islands. This action was facilitated by narratives of migrant invasion and …
Mobility cause lawyering
This article analyses cause lawyering as a critical form of resistance to uneven European Union (EU) mobility regimes. Grounded in the proclamation of a migration crisis during 2020–21 in the Canary Islands, Spain, when newly arrived racialized migrants in irregular situations faced different types of (im)mobilization during their transits to continental Europe, the article shows that cause lawyering is a significant strategy for disputing exclus…
Infrapolitical mobilities
Precarious migrants must cope with various restrictions and exceptional policies while challenging anti-migrant images and crisis discourses. Using the concept infrapolitical mobilities, this article draws attention to minor acts that resist and/or navigate the constraints imposed by the racialization and criminalization of migrant (im)mobilities. We emphasize the agency and practices performed by migrants and their allies, that, intentionally or…
Mobility rules
In this introductory article, we critically analyze which rules govern human mobility and how mobility regulations and codes are resisted, transgressed, broken, and remade. To play by the rules of mobility means to follow habits and laws governed by social norms and institutional control. Our point of departure is that social and institutional mobility rules both abound and are intertwined and that they are routinely disputed by individuals, grou…
Into the unknown
Political science (16 obras) · Sociology (16 obras) · Law (9 obras) · Geography (7 obras) · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy (6 obras) · Mobilities (6 obras) · Business (5 obras) · Ethnography (5 obras) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (5 obras) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (5 obras)