MIGRATIONS, POLITICAL BORDERS AND THE DIGITAL REALM

Abstract

Many studies have addressed the issue of migration and displacement, one of themain geopolitical challenges of our time, but far fewer have analysed it using aninterdisciplinary framework and selecting literary and artistic practices from atransnational context. !e purpose of this paper is to describe the way in whichthe artists use the specificity of medium and mechanism in their projects to reflecton the current migratory crisis and forced migration, to critique the securitizationor the politics of immigration in recent years and to explore a tactical use of technologiesin order to expand public consciousness and political debate. It is directlyfocused on the migratory processes involving Mexicans who go to the United Statesand its connection to the complex political imaginary of these regions, and on therelationship between identity and marginalization, particularly the influence ofthe 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 froman artistic point of view –, this research intends to understand how these projectsexplore forms of critical intervention, dissent or disruption of a dominant semioticregime by stimulating critical thinking about consolidated narratives and sign systemsof identity and difference.