Inter-American Encounters in the Travel and Migration Narratives of Mayra Montero and Cristina García: Toward a Decolonial Hemispheric Feminism

The last decade has been characterized by an intense inflow of people into borders of what has been called the "Fortress Europe". Italian governments, from Gentiloni-Minniti to Conte-Salvini, have implemented restrictive border management and migration control measures, fueled also by an over mediatization of the issue in and by public discourses. However, from February 2020 public debates and narratives have been dominated by the Covid-19 pandemic, a health emergency often described as a war against an invisible enemy. Through a qualitative analysis of Italian media representations, this paper analyses how Covid-19 overshadowed and reframed migration narratives and discourses. Moving within the concept of (in)visibility, this paper explores the two macrodiscourses around migration during the lockdown: on one side, the link between migration and illness (fear of infection) that led to strict border security measures; on the other, the utilitaristic x\regularization of migrants working in informal economy. The conclusion reflects on long-term implications of the pandemic on mobility justice (Sheller 2018) and what Mbembe (2020) has defined the "right to breath".

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Here in Berlin by Cristina García

Hispania ◽

10.1353/hpn.2020.0021 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 103 (1) ◽

pp. 142-143

Author(s):

Ada Ortúzar-Young

Keyword(s):

Cristina Garcia ◽

Cristina García

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Tense, Mood, and Aspect

10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190666552.003.0004 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Julia Simon

Keyword(s):

Jim Crow ◽

Temporal Structure ◽

Close Reading ◽

Musical Analysis ◽

Subject Positions ◽

The Past ◽

Migration Narratives ◽

And Migration

The verbal characteristics of tense, mood, and aspect are used in this chapter to examine the structuring of narratives in the blues. Arguing that the blues articulate an unconventional story arc marked by a timeline that both reaches back retrospectively into the past and gestures toward a future, Simon argues that the temporal structure approximates Jim Crow and migration narratives in its open-endedness. The discussion of tense, mood, and aspect reveals an unstable, resonant, and oscillating system of temporalities and subject positions. Beginning with explorations of Memphis Minnie’s “In My Girlish Days” and Freddie King’s “Someday, After Awhile,” the chapter culminates in a close reading of Freddie King’s guitar solo in “Have You Ever Loved a Woman.” Through musical analysis, musical correlates to tense, mood, and aspect demonstrate the musical narrative’s reliance on structures similar to those that underpin the lyric content.

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Imagining Zimbabwe as home: ethnicity, violence and migration

African Studies Review ◽

10.1017/asr.2019.65 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 63 (3) ◽

pp. 616-639

Author(s):

Duduzile S. Ndlovu

Keyword(s):

South Africa ◽

National Identity ◽

Asylum Seekers ◽

Time And Space ◽

One Dimensional ◽

Political Events ◽

Migration Narratives ◽

And Migration ◽

Over Time

Abstract:Migration debates tend to focus on the numbers of people moving, whether they are economic migrants or asylum seekers, deserving or not of protection. This categorization usually rests on national identity, necessitating simplified one-dimensional representations. Ndlovu uses a case study of Zimbabwean migrants memorializing Gukurahundi in Johannesburg to highlight the ways in which migration narratives can be more complex and how they may shift over time. She presents Gukurahundi and the formation of the MDC in Zimbabwe, along with xenophobic violence in South Africa, as examples of the ways that the meanings of national and ethnic identities are contested by the migrants and influenced by political events across time and space.

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How Cristina Garcia lost her accent, and other Latina conversations

Latino Studies ◽

10.1057/palgrave.lst.8600130 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 3 (1) ◽

pp. 3-18 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Raphael Dalleo

Keyword(s):

Cristina Garcia ◽

Cristina García

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Borders, De-Borderization and Migration Narratives in Hungary

Przegląd Strategiczny ◽

10.14746/ps.2021.1.8 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 127-143

Author(s):

Teodor Gyelník

Keyword(s):

Everyday Life ◽

21St Century ◽

Zero Point ◽

End Of History ◽

Migration Narratives ◽

The End Of History ◽

And Migration

The events and processes of the recent decades drive us to awake from the hypnotic illusion of the ‘end of history’. The ‘return of history’ is not only a necessary step that has to be taken, but it is ontologically inevitable. Blinded by the mobile army of metaphors, metonyms and anthropomorphisms, we need to see that the processes of the 21st century are no different from the old politics which were recorded in history, thus it is unavoidable to think within the ‘dialectics of Old and New’. Globalization, relativization of values, removal of borders and the re-narration of borders in previously unseen areas lead us to an existential zero point. Borders play significant self-determining and self-definition role in our life and society, thus their relocation, reorientation and blurring of their meaning is a question that has to be analysed and closely watched. Together with the narration of borders, the narration of security plays major role. Migration and the question of open, permeable borders have become one of the most important security narrations of our everyday life.

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