North American Migrants Working as Tour Guides in Alamos in Mexico Mobilities and Imaginaries

The article focuses on the guide’s narratives and practices when guiding “HouseTours” that is the most visited tourist attraction in the Mexican town. We argue thatthese guides provide narratives about concrete imaginaries that constitute not onlyauthenticity but also utopia – that we consider one of the core elements in tourismimaginaries. The guides inscribe themselves in the utopian imaginaries in the Westernhemisphere that continue to be essential in the socio-cultural and political constructionof society. We conclude that these tourism imaginaries of places (and people) cannotbe considered only as commoditized representations with a symbolic content. Alamosdisplays that way the significant connections that exist in terms of both representationsand mobilities

Negotiating Membership in a Mexican Transnational Community: A study of North American Immigrants in a Mexican Border Town

This article seeks to shed light on new formations of citizenship andpolitical transnationalism in a Mexican town in the Mexican – USborder region. We analyze how a North American immigrant groupas a new actor forms part of the civil society and the implicationsthat networks forged by this group have for the nature ofcitizenship. The article argues that we are in need of a more nuancedaccount of the limits and possibilities for understandingtransnational citizenship. The North American immigrant grouprecognizes the continuing significance of the nation state (US),however they are flexible in negotiating the practices and rights ofcitizenship across borders. They must accommodate or resist, asthey attempt to politically construct new spaces for practicingcitizenship across borders. Thereby the article rejects bothnationalist and post-nationalist essentialisms and focuses on the realsocial differences in order to capture the social space of thechanging nature of transnational citizenship

Un estudio sobre emigrantes norteamericanos en un pueblo mexicano

Den traditionelle migrationsforskning betragter Mexico, som et typisk faktor eller transit land, samt har sit fokus på migrationsflowet fra Syd (Latinamerika) til Nord(USA). Dette case studie derimod bidrager empirisk med identifikationen af en ny type immigranter, angelsaksiske noramerikanere, som i stadigt større omfang emigrerer fra Nord(USA) til Syg(Mexico), hvilket som noget nyt også gør Mexico til et pull faktor land....

Introduction: Sustainable Development Goals and informal economies in Latin America

This special issue addresses the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in relation with informal economies and explores how informal economies need to be conceptualized, understood and connected to the SDGs in order to enable innovative sustainable development models

Re-writing the Sustainable Development Goals from marketplaces in Argentina, Chile, Colombia and Mexico

The aim of this paper is to reflect on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and informality which is an economy not acknowledged within the SDGs. Based on anthropological fieldwork the article analyzes how informal, diverse economies in this case, marketplaces in different Latin American countries, might contribute to elaborate and rewrite sustainable development models. Throughout history, marketplaces in Latin America have provoked strong political debates because they operate in the informal sector and now they are increasingly being framed as tourist attractions. This creates an opportunity to reposition marketplaces as an asset in the formal economy. The informal, diverse economies constitute more than half of the GDPs in the Global South including Latin America. Despite repeated claims about the importance of informality as one of the fastest growing phenomena of our time and increasingly an issue of public and political concern, no systematic studies within tourism engages with the SDGs dealing with informality. Consequently, central to this paper is to consider integrating existing practices into SDGs to create pathways for sustainable development models