Papers by Ana Gutierrez
Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 2023
This paper explores the stories of women migrants from Latin
America who found themselves living ... more This paper explores the stories of women migrants from Latin
America who found themselves living precarious lives and
struggling to sustain former idealised notions of their racial and
class identities in London. Dispossessed of previous class
membership due to an onward feminised precarity, a diminished
social capital, undocumented legal statuses, and menial
stigmatised jobs, women clung to an idealised perception of
social status (shaped by white Eurocentric aspirations) to
negotiate and reconfigure class and racial anxieties in London.
They engage in various strategies that include processes of
whitening through marriage and children, performances of taste
and beauty, and negotiating their racialisation at work. These
cases reflect the relevance of the coloniality of power, its
influence in the subsistence of racial and class ideologies in Latin
America, and in a global economy of care that produces and
reproduces postcolonial forms of intersectional racialised and
gendered exploitation.
American Anthropologist , 2022
This article explores the intersection that exists between the economy and intimacy through an ex... more This article explores the intersection that exists between the economy and intimacy through an exploration of gift exchanges between Latin American sex workers and regular clients in London. It engages with scholarship on sex work and intimacy to explore the social dimension of gifts embedded in affective commodified relationships. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.
Ethnos, 2020
Amid austerity policies that have retracted welfare programmes and have affected the livelihood o... more Amid austerity policies that have retracted welfare programmes and have affected the livelihood of people in Spain, this paper describes how various local practices of care among members of the PAH (Platform for People Affected by Mortgages) work to recuperate social relations morally and practically. I seek to understand the relationship between people’s perceptions of social justice and notions of fairness on the one hand and ideas about deservingness on the other. I am interested in exploring who gets to choose and allocate, and how people in the PAH use the collective notion of care to justify their choice. I analyse the conundrums of a movement that struggles to find a balance between individual judgments and the collective good; I aim to show the dilemmas and contradictions of the struggle for social justice.
Anthropology of this century , 2018
http://aotcpress.com/articles/remembering-imagining-home/
Focaal—Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology, 2018
Through an ethnography of undocumented migrants from Latin America to London, I explore the tempo... more Through an ethnography of undocumented migrants from Latin America to London, I explore the temporality of illegality as a piecemeal process in which migrants fi nd themselves embodying new ways of being in the world. I investigate the power of illegality beyond its legal connotations and through the analysis of the everyday experiences of migrants in London, I show how it aff ects the external structure of migrants' worlds, as well as their subjectivities. I show how the illegal status is imagined, embodied, and sustained over an indefi nite and uncertain length of time. Undocumented migrants in London are required to slowly adapt, to wait through anxious engagements with other people, and to deal with a legal system that controls their fractured presents and their uncertain futures.
Francisco Martínez,
Mariya Ivancheva,
Valerio Simoni,
Martin Demant Frederiksen,
Livia Jiménez,
L... more Francisco Martínez,
Mariya Ivancheva,
Valerio Simoni,
Martin Demant Frederiksen,
Livia Jiménez,
Laura Hirvi,
Kacper Pobłocki,
Lili Di Puppo,
Damián-Omar Martínez,
Perry Sherouse,
Alessandro Testa,
Ana Gutiérrez,
Maria Theresia Starzmann,
Hannah Wadle,
Vita Peacock
La violencia contra la mujer ha puesto de manifiesto las deficiencias de los estados para protege... more La violencia contra la mujer ha puesto de manifiesto las deficiencias de los estados para proteger y promover los derechos humanos de las mujeres. Una vida libre sin violencia es el principio del derecho a la vida, derecho que millones de mujeres en el mundo no conocen. Partiendo de esta idea, el tema de la violencia contra la mujer ha venido abriendo nuevos caminos en el ámbito de lo social, político, legal e incluso económico para entender más a fondo como se estructura la desigualdad entre el hombre y la mujer.
La mujer ha sido objeto de discriminación, explotación y abusos tanto físicos como psicológicos d... more La mujer ha sido objeto de discriminación, explotación y abusos tanto físicos como psicológicos desde los inicios de la humanidad, al menos desde los inicios de lo que conocemos como historia. La violencia contra la mujer tiene sus raíces en la discriminación, una de las causas de esta discriminación es culpa, entre otros factores, del estado. El estado y su inacción a la hora de garantizar la igualdad de oportunidades para ambos sexos en los ámbitos de la educación, la vivienda, la alimentación, el empleo etc.
Drafts by Ana Gutierrez
¿Cuáles son las categorías fundamentales de la identidad: el sexo, el género, el deseo? El cuerpo... more ¿Cuáles son las categorías fundamentales de la identidad: el sexo, el género, el deseo? El cuerpo es el receptáculo de las interpretaciones culturales que conforman nuestro ámbito social por lo tanto es constantemente definido dentro de un contexto social, por medio del cuerpo se pueden interpretar de nuevo un conjunto de símbolos culturales que conformará finalmente nuestro habitus.
Teaching Documents by Ana Gutierrez
Books by Ana Gutierrez
Problems of Debt: Explorations of Life, Love and Finance , 2019
It was part of this that he completed his dissertation examining the impact of Universal Credit o... more It was part of this that he completed his dissertation examining the impact of Universal Credit on advice agencies from which his chapter is drawn. Oscar Berglund is a Critical Political Economist in the School for Policy Studies at the University of Bristol. He is part of the Centre for Urban and Public Policy. He researches political contestation of the processes of neoliberalisation and austerity, including both non-violent contestation by social movements and parliamentary forms of contestation.
In homes and brothels around the world, migrant women are selling a unique commodity: care. Care ... more In homes and brothels around the world, migrant women are selling a unique commodity: care. Care for Sale is an in-depth ethnography of a group of middle-class women from Latin America who exchange care and intimacy for money while working as domestic and sex workers in London. Illuminating the complexities of care work, the book offers a detailed study of women's lives and working conditions. It considers how their experience of migration and intimate labor is one of rupture that both enables and forces them to gradually reconstitute themselves, in their host cities, as people quite distinct from their "normal" selves back home.
Care for Sale illustrates the connections and the factors that contribute to migrant women choosing either domestic or sex work, including their concerns about money and morality. It moves away from a narrow focus on migration and labor to focus instead on the creation and (re)creation of persons; and on the ways in which people fashion themselves and cultivate difference, inequality, or commonality as part of their self-making projects. By doing this, the book shows migrants not only as economic actors, but also as individuals involved in an intimate process that constantly modifies their sense of morality and personhood.
https://global.oup.com/ushe/product/care-for-sale-9780190840655?q=care%20for%20sale&lang=en&cc=gb
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Papers by Ana Gutierrez
America who found themselves living precarious lives and
struggling to sustain former idealised notions of their racial and
class identities in London. Dispossessed of previous class
membership due to an onward feminised precarity, a diminished
social capital, undocumented legal statuses, and menial
stigmatised jobs, women clung to an idealised perception of
social status (shaped by white Eurocentric aspirations) to
negotiate and reconfigure class and racial anxieties in London.
They engage in various strategies that include processes of
whitening through marriage and children, performances of taste
and beauty, and negotiating their racialisation at work. These
cases reflect the relevance of the coloniality of power, its
influence in the subsistence of racial and class ideologies in Latin
America, and in a global economy of care that produces and
reproduces postcolonial forms of intersectional racialised and
gendered exploitation.
Mariya Ivancheva,
Valerio Simoni,
Martin Demant Frederiksen,
Livia Jiménez,
Laura Hirvi,
Kacper Pobłocki,
Lili Di Puppo,
Damián-Omar Martínez,
Perry Sherouse,
Alessandro Testa,
Ana Gutiérrez,
Maria Theresia Starzmann,
Hannah Wadle,
Vita Peacock
Drafts by Ana Gutierrez
Teaching Documents by Ana Gutierrez
Books by Ana Gutierrez
Care for Sale illustrates the connections and the factors that contribute to migrant women choosing either domestic or sex work, including their concerns about money and morality. It moves away from a narrow focus on migration and labor to focus instead on the creation and (re)creation of persons; and on the ways in which people fashion themselves and cultivate difference, inequality, or commonality as part of their self-making projects. By doing this, the book shows migrants not only as economic actors, but also as individuals involved in an intimate process that constantly modifies their sense of morality and personhood.
https://global.oup.com/ushe/product/care-for-sale-9780190840655?q=care%20for%20sale&lang=en&cc=gb
America who found themselves living precarious lives and
struggling to sustain former idealised notions of their racial and
class identities in London. Dispossessed of previous class
membership due to an onward feminised precarity, a diminished
social capital, undocumented legal statuses, and menial
stigmatised jobs, women clung to an idealised perception of
social status (shaped by white Eurocentric aspirations) to
negotiate and reconfigure class and racial anxieties in London.
They engage in various strategies that include processes of
whitening through marriage and children, performances of taste
and beauty, and negotiating their racialisation at work. These
cases reflect the relevance of the coloniality of power, its
influence in the subsistence of racial and class ideologies in Latin
America, and in a global economy of care that produces and
reproduces postcolonial forms of intersectional racialised and
gendered exploitation.
Mariya Ivancheva,
Valerio Simoni,
Martin Demant Frederiksen,
Livia Jiménez,
Laura Hirvi,
Kacper Pobłocki,
Lili Di Puppo,
Damián-Omar Martínez,
Perry Sherouse,
Alessandro Testa,
Ana Gutiérrez,
Maria Theresia Starzmann,
Hannah Wadle,
Vita Peacock
Care for Sale illustrates the connections and the factors that contribute to migrant women choosing either domestic or sex work, including their concerns about money and morality. It moves away from a narrow focus on migration and labor to focus instead on the creation and (re)creation of persons; and on the ways in which people fashion themselves and cultivate difference, inequality, or commonality as part of their self-making projects. By doing this, the book shows migrants not only as economic actors, but also as individuals involved in an intimate process that constantly modifies their sense of morality and personhood.
https://global.oup.com/ushe/product/care-for-sale-9780190840655?q=care%20for%20sale&lang=en&cc=gb