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Capitalism, socialism, and the politics of difference in the Colombia-Venezuela borderland

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This thesis examines the politics and production of social difference in the Colombia- Venezuela borderland, focusing on how political-economic ideologies—capitalism and socialism—serve as primary axes of differentiation in host-migrant relations. Through 17 months of ethnographic fieldwork in La Guajira, Colombia, I analyze how capitalism and socialism are discursively constructed as emic categories and how these labels ‘stick’ to the bodies of Venezuelan migrants, framing them as undesir...

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
SSD
Department:
SAME
Oxford college:
Brasenose College
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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
SSD
Department:
SAME
Role:
Supervisor
Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
SSD
Department:
SAME
Role:
Supervisor
ORCID:
0000-0001-5964-1804


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Type of award:
DPhil
Level of award:
Doctoral
Awarding institution:
University of Oxford


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