Subjectivities at the Crossroads: Migration, Crisis, and the Reconfiguration of Everyday Life between Venezuela and Europe
migración, crisis y reconfiguración de la vida cotidiana entre Venezuela y Europa
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Crisis, migration,, everyday lifeAbstract
This article analyzes the relationship between migration, crisis, and the reconfiguration of everyday life from an autoethnographic perspective inspired by phenomenology. Based on a trajectory situated between Venezuela and Europe, it examines how the economic and social crisis in the country of origin influenced the decision to migrate and the subsequent transformation of ways of inhabiting, relating, and projecting existence. The analysis focuses on the lived experience of migration as a process of subjectivation, paying attention to everyday practices, know-how, and bureaucratic and cultural mediations that shape uprooting, adaptation, and the reinscription of the subject in the territories of destination. It concludes that everyday life constitutes a decisive space for learning, negotiation, and the reconstruction of belonging in contexts of uncertainty.
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