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This article reflects on the relationship between religion and the bonds between transnational families. The case I document is the cult of the Virgin of “El Cisne” also known by her worshipers as La Churona, whose origin comes from a province in the South of Ecuador and who now is also worshiped in Madrid, Spain. The main objective is to examine the role of the figure of the Virgin from a familiar and subjective stand. It is of interest on a meso-level to look at the transnational families like a key component in the transmission and the sustain of religious practices and on a micro-level by focusing on the subjectivity, specially on female immigrants centered on the link between the Virgin and the exercise of transnational maternity.
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This paper explores the challenges and advantages in conducting biographical research based on life narratives of 140 Albanian migrants in three host societies, Greece, Switzerland and Germany. This methodological paper is written in the context of the research project investigating the experience of industrial citizenship (IC) of labour migrants coming from the Western Balkans (WB) to the European Union (EU). We reinforce our biographical accounts with semi-structured interviews, visual methods, participant observations, field notes and expert interviews which will provide context to the biographical interview texts. This paper shed light into challenges emerging in the framework of ethnography research field work, addressing the ethnographic issue trust building, hierarchic position, gender, ethical dilemmas, resistance and technical issues as well. Moreover we discuss how self-reflexivity take place during the field work and challenges the professional and personal identity of researchers.
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