In this eighth series we will discuss the complex issue of migration, with an intersectional, afro-centered, and trans-centered gaze. We will weave and make visible how international and migratory policies created by colonial systems, and contemporarily, by the global north, have the clear objective of blocking access and manipulating the subjectivities at convenience, of Afro-diasporic peoples and dissident communities of the global south who are in voluntary or forced mobility, through an anti-black racism that comes from a colonial heritage, and that at the same time perpetuates systems of oppression against black and dissident communities.
We will complement our view of migration by recognizing the diversity of bodies, genders, territories, nations and positions in order to account for the structural violence that affects Afro-diasporic peoples who are in mobility. To this end, we will focus on concepts such as migration, mobility, nationalism, statelessness, racism, anti-black racism, anti-Haitian racism, deterritorialization, among others. From the specific experiences of Central America, Haiti and the southern border of the Spanish territory, we will be able to transversalize these visions to account for how capital and violence work through the perverse device of migration.
Invited:
Ana María Belique, Carla García, Iki Yos Piña Narvaez, Johan Mijail