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Media type:
E-Article
Title:
Medi-terranean Borderization
Contributor:
Zaccaria, Paola
imprint:
University of Chicago Press, 2011
Published in:Signs
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1086/660170
ISSN:
0097-9740;
1545-6943
Origination:
Footnote:
Description:
<label>Abstract</label>
<p>Today, when the children of first-generation migrants speak European languages in Italy, Germany, France, and northern Europe, the residents of these countries who have welcoming hearts open to new accents can listen to “forked tongues” singing in a mestizo melody that reinvigorates the morphology of our too-still languages. Both for welcoming residents and for nationals who fear the “flood” of immigrants from North Africa, the Chicano/a elaboration of the transition from postcoloniality to empowering decolonization and, more specifically, the dissemination of Gloria E. Anzaldúa’s theorization of borderlands and<italic>mestizaje</italic>are precious tools to analyze and deconstruct the power relations between the state(s) that build walls/borders and the “borderized”/walled-in subjects. In a supranational horizon of good practices, Chicano/a theories of self and global transformations function as models for migratory thinking and, when adjusted to each specific reality, can be used by both migrants and nonhostile hosting populations as maps to orient oneself while making a space for supranational cohabitation and agency.</p>