Latin Americans in London: Digital diasporas and Social Activism

TY - CHAP

T1 - Latin Americans in London

T2 - Digital diasporas and Social Activism

AU - Roman-Velazquez, Patria

AU - Retis, Jessica

PY - 2023/1

Y1 - 2023/1

N2 - This chapter presents preliminary findings of a larger research project that examines the voices of Latin American communities living in the United Kingdom. We seek to capture the narratives through which Latin Americans in London recognize themselves as British Latinx in diasporic and transnational spaces and how they develop strategies to navigate the city and the system while also capturing how they claim their space in the global city. We argue that transnational networks of solidarity and local struggles are facilitating renewed sense of belongingness and claims to the city. In this contribution we present a preliminary attempt to examine Latin American digitaldiasporas with a focus on social media activism in local campaigns against gentrification.

AB - This chapter presents preliminary findings of a larger research project that examines the voices of Latin American communities living in the United Kingdom. We seek to capture the narratives through which Latin Americans in London recognize themselves as British Latinx in diasporic and transnational spaces and how they develop strategies to navigate the city and the system while also capturing how they claim their space in the global city. We argue that transnational networks of solidarity and local struggles are facilitating renewed sense of belongingness and claims to the city. In this contribution we present a preliminary attempt to examine Latin American digitaldiasporas with a focus on social media activism in local campaigns against gentrification.

KW - Latin London

KW - Digital Diasporas

KW - Digital communication

KW - Latin Americans in London

KW - Social Activism

U2 - DOI:10.1163/9789004519671_007

DO - DOI:10.1163/9789004519671_007

M3 - Chapter

SN - 978-90-04-51965-7

T3 - Critical Latin America Series

SP - 100

BT - Imagining Latinidad

PB - Brill Academic Publishers

CY - Netherlands

ER -