scholarly journals Transnational Habitus and the Formation of a Colombian Community in Toronto

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Santy Restrepo
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Data Analysis ◽  
Ethnic Group ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Census Data ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Community Formation ◽  
Field Observations ◽  
Political Conflicts

Colombians are one of the largest Latin American populations in Canada, however academic research on this ethnic group is scarce. Unlike other immigrant groups from Latin America, Colombians demonstrate limited community formation. This study seeks to explore the reasons that impede the formation of a Colombian community in Toronto. Using transnational habitus as a theoretical framework, and using census data analysis as well as field observations in the Toronto CMA, the study suggests that multiple political conflicts in Colombia have been transplanted to Canada, thereby impeding the formation of a solidified community.

scholarly journals Transnational Habitus and the Formation of a Colombian Community in Toronto

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Santy Restrepo
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Data Analysis ◽  
Ethnic Group ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Census Data ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Community Formation ◽  
Field Observations ◽  
Political Conflicts

Colombians are one of the largest Latin American populations in Canada, however academic research on this ethnic group is scarce. Unlike other immigrant groups from Latin America, Colombians demonstrate limited community formation. This study seeks to explore the reasons that impede the formation of a Colombian community in Toronto. Using transnational habitus as a theoretical framework, and using census data analysis as well as field observations in the Toronto CMA, the study suggests that multiple political conflicts in Colombia have been transplanted to Canada, thereby impeding the formation of a solidified community.

Moving from Latin America to Germany: Culture shock and challenges faced by a geoscientist family

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liseth Perez ◽  
Matthias Bücker
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Culture Shock ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Gender Disparity ◽  
Research And Teaching ◽  
Cultural Shock ◽  
Family Friendly ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Multiple Challenges

<p>Geoscientists are often highly mobile, making them attractive candidates for academic positions. Nevertheless, changing your country of residency can be very challenging, and such challenges are amplified if one has small children, and especially if both parents are active researchers. We are both geoscientists, with specialties in paleolimnology and geophysics, and have a 2-year-old son and 7-year-old daughter. We are originally from Guatemala and Germany, and our children were born in Mexico, where we worked for seven years before moving to Germany.</p><p>Culture shock is often expected to be severe when moving from Europe to a developing country, like Mexico or Guatemala. In our case, however, we experienced serious cultural shock when we moved from Latin America to Germany. It became apparent that conditions were harsh for couples that try to live equitably at home and at work, and attempt not to neglect either family life or science. We identified multiple challenges in our daily life, such as: (1) the well-known lack of sufficient childcare options in Germany, (2) cultural differences at work, such as family-“unfriendly” scheduling of important meetings, (3) a lack of flexibility with respect to financial support for families whose members participate in professional symposia or fieldwork, and  (4) policies of granting institutions that sometimes, unintentionally, preclude family-friendly work in academic research.</p><p>Our personal experiences may help to elucidate why the gender disparity in science is larger in wealthy, central European countries such as Germany (28.0% female researchers, UNESCO 2018) than in many Latin American countries, such as Mexico (33.0%) and Guatemala (53.2%). By identifying key issues, we hope to improve the situation for parent researchers - both female and male. Changes will be required of universities in Germany and elsewhere in Europe that intend to improve the quality of research and teaching at their institutions by attracting young, talented, international scientists. We acknowledge that every case is different, but encourage universities that are building strong programs through internationalization of the faculty to consider the needs of families of incoming foreign researchers, and actively support dual-career professional couples.</p>

scholarly journals The Immigrant Waves from Latin American to Canada: A Look at Immigration and Census Statistics

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fernando Mata
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Census Data ◽  
Selection Process ◽  
Policy Decision ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Community Formation ◽  
Latino Immigration ◽  
American Immigrant ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Immigrant Selection

In the last decades, migration from Latin America to Canada has become a topic of interest for Canadian scholars, policy decision-makers that look after the well-being of this population as well as for community members themselves. The nature of Latino immigration to Canada is continuously changing, and so does how the integration of these immigrants to Canada is interpreted and problematized. Using yearly immigration statistics and 2016 Census data, the author looks at the 1965-2015 and 1981-2016 periods and explores the five major Latin American immigrant waves previously identified by Canadian scholars: the Eurolatino or Lead of the 1960s, the Andean and Coup of the 1970s, the Central American of the 1980s, and the Technological-Professional which started in the mid-1990s. A sixth additional Sustaining Latino immigrant wave is also identified. Immigrant waves are the product of particular historical international developments as well as changes in Canada's immigration policy. The paper briefly also examines the historical moments of Latino immigration to Canada, the socio-demographic composition of national immigrant inflows related to these immigrant waves, and reflects on how the immigrant selection process has affected immigration integration outcomes and community formation.

scholarly journals Theoretical Framework for Research on Mathematical Olympiads in Latin America

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-30
Author(s):  
Oscar F. Bernal Pedraza
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Critical Factors ◽  
School Students ◽  
Quantitative And Qualitative Research ◽  
Research Areas ◽  
Latin American Countries

This theoretical framework is intended to serve as guide to research on national Mathematical Olympiads in Latin America. Research with the goal to elucidate critical factors involved in the existence and results obtained by Latin American teams in the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) and other international contests, may find a stepping stone in this framework and the references cited in it. From the way local committees see themselves and their indicators for success. to the feedback subsumed in the IMO results, different comparable metrics for success must be developed to understand the specific challenges faced by these organizations and the goals set by themselves and the educational communities in their own countries. As for Latin American countries the IMO is not the only competition they attend or their single metric for success, reference to the IMO is provided as the evolving opportunity leading to the creation of local olympiad committees, the committees this framework presents as an opportunity for research and understanding of the search for talent in developing countries. As a way of closing the document, a few questions are proposed, offering both quantitative and qualitative research areas and with the possibility to reach findings helpful for those organizations, for the school students in their respective countries, and for similar organizations in other countries.

Latino Philosophy

2018 ◽  
pp. 197-218
Author(s):  
Susana Nuccetelli
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Ethnic Group ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Close Relation ◽  
Radical Skepticism ◽  
Latin American Philosophy ◽  
Spanish Speaking ◽  
American Philosophy ◽  
Brighter Future ◽  
Group Term

Latino philosophy and Latin American philosophy, in spite of their close relation, are taking different paths on foundational questions about their own significance, prospects, and even existence. Furthermore, Latino philosophy must continue to avoid two extreme positions that figure prominently in Latin American philosophy, radical skepticism and overconfident optimism. By resting on exceedingly narrow conceptions of the nature of this type of philosophy, neither of them can help to overcome the challenges facing these fields. But Latino philosophy may have a brighter future, provided it expands the use of reasoned argument beyond the issues discussed in this essay. Some concern the nature of Latino philosophy and its closest relatives. Others involve Latino philosophy’s contribution to solving a recurrent puzzle about which ethnic-group term (if any) is best for talking about US residents who are from the officially Spanish-speaking nations of Latin America by birth or ancestry.

Doing Courts Justice? Studying Judicial Politics in Latin America

2008 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 741-767 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diana Kapiszewski ◽  
Matthew M. Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Judicial Politics ◽  
Latin American Politics ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
The Past ◽  
Collective Effort ◽  
Key Questions

The past decade has brought an unprecedented boom in the study of courts as political actors in Latin America. We examine the extraordinary diversity of academic research on judicial politics in the region, identifying the key questions, findings, and theoretical debates in the literature, highlighting important conceptual disjunctions, and critiquing the research methods scholars of judicial politics in Latin America have employed in their work. We close by suggesting new avenues of inquiry to help advance the collective effort to understand the roles courts play in Latin American politics.

French Missionaries and Latin American Catholicism in the Nineteenth Century

1981 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 351-367
Author(s):  
Claude Pomerleau
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Leading Edge ◽  
Religious Leaders ◽  
American Catholicism ◽  
Political Conflicts ◽  
French Catholicism ◽  
History Of ◽  
Missionary Societies

French Catholicism inspired one of the most ambitious missionary movements in the history of Roman Catholicism in the nineteenth century. French missionaries went to Latin America to build a new Church. In France, new missionary societies were founded for this task. Older, established religious societies were renewed in order to participate in the missionary movement of the day. French missionaries travelled across the globe establishing a network of missions linking the continents to France, and France to Rome. The missionary revival constituted the leading edge of religious renewal sweeping Europe and France during the nineteenth century.The Latin American Church was especially receptive to French religious currents. Latin American religious leaders were preoccupied with internal struggles and absorbed with social and political conflicts. They disposed of few resources and of limited energy for evangelization and religious renewal within their newly-formed nations. The French were anxious and able to supply what was needed in Latin America. The French saw the missionary challenge as a struggle against secularization and liberalism, even though that battle was far from over within France itself.

scholarly journals Transition to adulthood in Latin America: 1960s-2010s

2021 ◽  
Vol 38 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Matheus Menezes dos Santos ◽  
Bernardo Lanza Queiroz ◽  
Ana Paula De Andrade Verona
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Transition To Adulthood ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Census Data ◽  
Process Of Change ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
First Union ◽  
The Mean ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Latin American Countries

Multidimensional discussion about transition to adulthood is an incipient theme in Latin America. This paper seeks to describe and characterize the process of change in the transition of men and women in the region between the 1960s and 2010's. Using census data from IPUMS-International for 15 Latin American countries, we calculate the mean ages at transition to adulthood, at entering the labor market, at first union, and at first birth. We concluded there was a process of postponing transition to adulthood, although much stronger for males than for females, which we attribute to the events linked to the transition of each group. With these results, we hope to encourage further research into transition to adulthood in Latin America.

Theoretical Framework for Research on Mathematical Olympiads in Latin America

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 95-101
Author(s):  
Oscar F. Bernal Pedraza
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Critical Factors ◽  
School Students ◽  
Quantitative And Qualitative Research ◽  
Research Areas ◽  
Latin American Countries

This theoretical framework is intended to serve as guide to research on national Mathematical Olympiads in Latin America. Research with the goal to elucidate critical factors involved in the existence and results obtained by Latin American teams in the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) and other international contests, may find a stepping stone in this framework and the references cited in it. From the way local committees see themselves and their indicators for success. to the feedback subsumed in the IMO results, different comparable metrics for success must be developed to understand the specific challenges faced by these organizations and the goals set by themselves and the educational communities in their own countries. As for Latin American countries the IMO is not the only competition they attend or their single metric for success, reference to the IMO is provided as the evolving opportunity leading to the creation of local olympiad committees, the committees this framework presents as an opportunity for research and understanding of the search for talent in developing countries. As a way of closing the document, a few questions are proposed, offering both quantitative and qualitative research areas and with the possibility to reach findings helpful for those organizations, for the school students in their respective countries, and for similar organizations in other countries.

scholarly journals RETHINKING POPULIST DISCOURSE FROM LATIN AMERICA: ALGORITHMIC ACTIVISM AND THE CONSTITUTION OF A PEOPLE IN CHILE

2020 ◽  
Vol 59 (1) ◽  
pp. 469-490
Author(s):  
Juan Eduardo Bonnin
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
American History ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
The Other ◽  
Latin American History ◽  
The People

ABSTRACT The aim of this article is to explore some of the ideological and empirical limits of studies on populism from a perspective based on Latin American history and theories, on one hand, and current ideas about digitalization and political discourse, on the other. I will first argue that studies on populism have a monolingual bias that conceals an ethnocentric view on academic research. As a consequence, when the term “populism” is applied to Latin American political discourse and history, it implies a pejorative view on democracies other than liberal European. Leaving aside this perspective, I will then present a different view of Latin American populisms, which allows for a richer, more complex perspective, including the key role of “the people” as a discursive actor that can even dispense with a populist leader, especially in the case of mediatized democracies. As a case study, I will analyze activism in Chile by observing Twitter’s Trending Topics (TT) during the first week of the mass protests in October 2019. The analysis of TT hashtags helped us to better desccribe this process as one of handcrafted algorithmic activism which developed at least four tactics: the formulation of explicit demands, off-hours tweetstorms, syntagmatic variation, and HT confrontation and appropriation.

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