Country of residence

Mexico

Brief introduction

Student, Full Scholarship by CONACYT (national council of science and technology, Mexico)

Education

MA, Social Anthropology

Academic profile

I have been working since 2007 with the kalderash roma of Mexico, and the research has been always orientated to describe and analyze the phenomenon of the conversion to the Pentecostalism and the changes in their social organization. In this research line I have established some comparisons between the roma Mexican phenomenon of conversion and others, such as the ones in France, Spain and Portugal. At the same time, because the absence of almost any kind of academic work with the Mexican roma, i have been writing in my MA thesis parts of their history, their economical practices, traditions and mobility. After finishing mi present work of thesis, I would like to research a social situation that happens in Mexico, that is, the extortion to some part of the roma people here, that have been related to other roma families. This conflict has originated some murders and migration of completes families to the United States.

Publications

• Speaker in the International Conference of nomadism and mobile ways of life in the Americas, celebrated in Wien, Austria. 15-17 de February 2012.
• Research stay in Seville in a project guided by Manuela Cantón and Teresa San Roman.
• Speaker in the I national congress of Social Anthropology and Ethnology

Keywords

Pentecostalism, Social Organization, Power.

Contact

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