Liberar las migraciones: la contribución de Abdelmalek Sayad a una epistemología migrante-céntrica

[EN] The migrant category is linked to the origin of the State as the predominant political unit in the world. This is because, as Abdelmalek Sayad (2008, 2010a) pointed out, without a State, there would be no migrants, as they exist as a political category, referring to the nationals of a State who...

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Autores: Avallone, Gennaro, Molinero Gerbeau, Yoan
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2021
País:España
Institución:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Repositorio:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
OAI Identifier:oai:digital.csic.es:10261/239832
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10261/239832
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Abdelmalek Sayad
Ethnocentrism
Frantz Fanon
State thought
Epistemic racism
Etnocentrismo
Pensamiento de Estado
Racismo epistémico
Ethnic discrimination
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Sumario:[EN] The migrant category is linked to the origin of the State as the predominant political unit in the world. This is because, as Abdelmalek Sayad (2008, 2010a) pointed out, without a State, there would be no migrants, as they exist as a political category, referring to the nationals of a State who cross the borders to settle (temporarily or permanently). This functional and historical connection has had a decisive impact at the epistemological level on the discipline of migration studies, where hegemonic paradigms have used analysis categories that not only reproduced the state framework, but have replicated principles such as coloniality, aimed at legitimizing their control over this population. The objective of this article is to propose an analytical framework on migrations that, following Sayad’s (2010a) and Fanon’s (2009) postulates, breaks with state hegemony in the definition of human mobility to point out the possibility of constructing analyses, which in contrast to the predominant State-centric approaches, start from a migrant-centric epistemology.