Construyendo pertenencia puntada a puntada: Migrantes latinoamericanas en Nueva Zelanda

Set within the global context of contemporary human migration and high degrees of mobility, this multimodal research study examined how narratives and textile craft-making function as means of expressing the overlapping themes of identity, belonging and migration for a group of Latin American women migrants in New Zealand. In New Zealand, the Latin American migrant community is relatively small (less than 1% of the population at over 13,000 individuals in the 2013 census), yet varied as it includes migrants who have arrived to the country in separate waves since the 1970s. As such, it is a group that is heterogeneous with people from different countries who have migrated to New Zealand for different reasons and with different sets of skills and aspirations. Their stories of migration have been sparsely documented; in particular, little is known about the migrant experiences of Latin American women migrants.