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This presentation explores the daily lives of Latino/Latina transnational migrants in the United States South who live and breathe alternative discourses of globalization. The speaker argues that regulatory regimes lower migrants' social reproduction costs (to employers) by ignoring, exporting and/or confining such needs to smaller geographical scales, while migrants meet their needs at many different geographical scales in dynamic social fields of their own creation. Whereas globalization involves the ‘scaling up’ of production and the ‘scaling down’ of social reproduction, migrants deploy expansive social fields to mobilize vast complex geographies of support. In doing so, migrants encounter, engage, and reshape multiple sex/gender systems in social spaces, public sites, and workplaces and wage a politics of scale such that the intimate realities of sexual expression and desire are caught up with the harsh objectification of labor markets, and the inestimable risks of unauthorized international border crossing. The Latino/Latina migrant body connects these various concerns, through enactment of desire and by producing and maintaining bodies from day-to-day and from generation-to-generation.
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