Immigration, Cultural Contestations, and the Reconfiguration of Identities: The Case of the Female Cultural Brokers

• Autores: Bela Feldman-Bianco
• Localización: Journal of Latin American Anthropology, ISSN 1085-7052, Vol. 4, Nº. 2, 1999, págs. 126-141
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This essay unveils the anonymous diasporic faces of Portuguese bicultural women who settled in New England between the 1960s and 1980s. In view of their pivotal location between conflicting cultural codes and diverse national projects, it is argued that these women perform significant bicultural brokering between immigrants and American institutions, as well as between the United States and Portugal. It is their pivotal location�specifically, the ways in which they confronted the superposition of differing cultural values and meanings related to gender and nationalism and, through their gendered experiences, actually negotiated their biculturalism in the reconstruction of their identities�that becomes crucial to this argument