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Introduction
Postdoctoral Researcher and Affiliated Lecturer,
Department of Social Anthropology,
University of Cambridge
Education
October 2015 - September 2019
October 2012 - September 2013
March 2006 - December 2010
Publications
Publications (16)
Drawing upon participant observation with unemployed Haitian women in Santiago (Chile), this paper explores the relation between alternative forms of moving and place-making around the city and the uncertainties of migrant labour among the most prominent afro-descendant group in the country today. Many Haitian women who fail to formally enter the C...
Formal work is essential to gain legal residence in Chile and the reason why Latin American and Caribbean migrants purchase fake contracts on the black market. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork with migrant Haitian women applying for work visas in Santiago, this article explores the effects of desired formality and its promises of a good life on co...
For Haitian women who live and work in Santiago, expecting a baby entitled to Chilean nationality involves recognizing their maternal bodies at different institutional levels and transforming who they are and how they care for themselves and others as migrants, workers, and mothers in a new country. Based on ethnographic research, this article exam...
This article examines the effects of racialization practices in quotidian encounters between migrant Haitian women looking for work and Chilean recruiters in job interviews and skills‐training programs in Santiago. Drawing on ethnographic research, I show how racialized differences are made material and emotional based on a particular history of wh...
In this chapter, I revisit Donna Haraway’s proposition of ‘situated knowledges’ (1988) to account for the ways ethnography – both as a mode of conducting research and a genre of writing – becomes destabilized in moments when race is ever more relevant as a historical fact and system of meaning that informs everyday life and the distribution of reso...
This dissertation explores the lives of Haitian women in Santiago, the capital of Chile, with a focus on their everyday encounters with Chilean state agents and private employers. It analyses the experiences of Haitian women as they navigate bureaucratic institutions and practices, negotiate their working conditions with employers and public defend...
La navegación a través de procedimientos burocráticos y los encuentros recurrentes entre migrantes y agentes del estado, son prácticas e interacciones que configuran las relaciones a través de las cuales el estado busca alcanzar el control de los flujos migratorios. Este artículo describe y analiza dos tipos de prácticas e interacciones: (1) la pos...
Journal: Religion and Society Volume 9 (2018)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3167/arrs.2018.090114
Immigration and legal status are dimensions of recent forms of labor market stratification and precarious employment in countries with high migrant flows. This paper explores the relationship between precarity and legal status within the framework of Haitian migration in Chile, where new forms of racial discrimination and gender segregation have em...
En esta presentación, mi objetivo es expandir la idea de trabajo migrante
analizando qué sucede cuando las prácticas económicas de mujeres haitianas
intersectan con las estructuras regulatorias de la formalidad laboral y del
orden público. Aquí, busco dialogar con el proyecto de la antropóloga Kathleen
Millar de desafiar lo que entendemos por traba...
This article portrays the way life insurance as a consumer device lives through kinship ties of care in London in order to harness the uncertainties and limits of mortality and loss. A life insurance policy is a private contract people subscribe to, along with paying monthly premiums, to get money if the policyholder dies unexpectedly. Based on eth...
How do Londoners experience the life insurance market to control uncertainties and limits of mortality and loss? This paper shows how policyholders turn into immortal figures that extend kin relations beyond death, exceeding its actuarial rationale via alternative temporalities and kin assemblages.
This thesis portrays the way life insurance lives through kinship ties of care in London, in order to harness the uncertainties and limits of mortality and loss. A life insurance policy is a private contract people subscribe to, along with paying monthly premiums, to get money if the policyholder dies unexpectedly. The present work aims to illustra...
