Author: Franziska Reiffen

Franziska Reiffen is a PhD candidate at the Department of Anthropology and African Studies (ifeas), Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. Drawing on ethnographic research in Buenos Aires, Argentina, she examines practices of placemaking in situations of displacement that concern migrants and lower middle-class Argentinians. Her research interests include (South-South) migration, with a regional focus on South America, displacement and post-migration studies.

Franziska Reiffen

Bench acquaintances: Finding one’s place in a Buenos Aires shopping centre #Displacement

August, 2018 / By Franziska Reiffen

In a situation of displacement, migrants and Argentinians forge social relations and thereby emplace themselves in a Buenos Aires shopping […]