MIGRATIONS, POLITICAL BORDERS AND THE DIGITAL REALM
Many studies have addressed the issue of migration and displacement, one of the main geopolitical challenges of our time, but far fewer have analysed it using an interdisciplinary framework and selecting literary and artistic practices from a transnational context. !e purpose of this paper is to de...
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| Language: | Portuguese |
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Universidade do Minho
2019-05-01
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| Series: | Diacrítica |
| Online Access: | http://diacritica.ilch.uminho.pt/index.php/dia/article/view/388 |
| Summary: | Many studies have addressed the issue of migration and displacement, one of the
main geopolitical challenges of our time, but far fewer have analysed it using an
interdisciplinary framework and selecting literary and artistic practices from a
transnational context. !e purpose of this paper is to describe the way in which
the artists use the specificity of medium and mechanism in their projects to reflect
on the current migratory crisis and forced migration, to critique the securitization
or the politics of immigration in recent years and to explore a tactical use of technologies
in order to expand public consciousness and political debate. It is directly
focused on the migratory processes involving Mexicans who go to the United States
and its connection to the complex political imaginary of these regions, and on the
relationship between identity and marginalization, particularly the influence of
the conceptualization of migrants as the Other in contemporary European society.
Based on the analysis of a series of case studies both from a theoretical and from
an artistic point of view –, this research intends to understand how these projects
explore forms of critical intervention, dissent or disruption of a dominant semiotic
regime by stimulating critical thinking about consolidated narratives and sign systems
of identity and difference.
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| ISSN: | 0870-8967 2183-9174 |