It's not how it was

The Chilean diaspora's changing landscape of belonging

Bibliographic Data

ID2146540
AuthorsCarolina Ramírez (0000-0002-5586-8961, corresponding author)
Year2014
Volume37
Issue4
Pages668-684
Publication date2014-03-21
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueEthnic and Racial Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0141-9870 • E-ISSN: 1466-4356
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01419870.2013.808759
OpenAlexW1979542300
LanguageEN
Citations received7
References cited30

The increasingly diverse character of London's multicultural landscape has shaped how migrants interact with(in) the different spaces of the city. This process entails both settled and incoming migrants' participation in place-making; a mutual imbrication that might promote the long-settled migrants' evocation of a lost terrain. This article unpacks that process by looking at the Latin American social football scene of South London, specifically a space known as la cancha (the pitch). This was founded by Chilean political refugees during the 1970s and it has incorporated Latin American 'economic' migrants and 'local' Britons through time. Starting from the evocation of a lost 'golden age' of la cancha, the paper unpacks this space's contested, complex and changing nature. It presents diaspora space, community and belonging as lived processes. Through this depiction, the assumptions of homogeneous and isolated migrant communities are challenged, as are the diaspora's nostalgic claims that also emerge from them

Art · Depiction · Diaspora · Ethnology · Evocation · Geography · Latin Americans · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Space (punctuation) · Visual arts · Anthropology · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Gender Studies · History · Law · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Migration, Refugees, and Integration

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