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This chapter examines how foreignness is configured in Venezuelan migrants’ experiences in Bogotá, a city that has served as the epicentre of neoliberalism in Colombia. Drawing on theories of social interaction and phenomenological sociology, I explore how strangement, a process in which body and emotions are inevitably involved, operates in migrants’ urban lives to understand the possibilities of urban solidarity in Bogotá as a Global South city. Using narrative analysis of stories obtained through interviews conducted between 2019 and 2021, I identify themes and narratives that make sense of the interviewees’ experiences as stranger-foreigners in the urban social space. The findings reveal that Bogotá, as a city of reception, is ambivalent and even contradictory. The production of social and bodily space, in co-presence with others, oscillates between acceptance and rejection, inclusion and exclusion, solidarity and xenophobia. Urban solidarity is shaped by the complexity of interactions within this ambivalent urban space.

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Strangers in the Neoliberal City: Bodily-Emotional Disposition, Urban Ambivalence, and Transcontextuality in the Narratives of Venezuelan Migrants in Bogotá

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    2025年

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  • Erik Jerena-Montiel

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This chapter examines how foreignness is configured in Venezuelan migrants’ experiences in Bogotá, a city that has served as the epicentre of neoliberalism in Colombia. Drawing on theories of social interaction and phenomenological sociology, I explore how strangement, a process in which body and emotions are inevitably involved, operates in migrants’ urban lives to understand the possibilities of urban solidarity in Bogotá as a Global South city. Using narrative analysis of stories obtained through interviews conducted between 2019 and 2021, I identify themes and narratives that make sense of the interviewees’ experiences as stranger-foreigners in the urban social space. The findings reveal that Bogotá, as a city of reception, is ambivalent and even contradictory. The production of social and bodily space, in co-presence with others, oscillates between acceptance and rejection, inclusion and exclusion, solidarity and xenophobia. Urban solidarity is shaped by the complexity of interactions within this ambivalent urban space.