Sobrevivientes

Testimonial literature, Haitian migrants, and Mexico's racial imagination

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ID2178202
AuthorsAdolfo Bejar Lara (0009-0000-1982-0525, SUNY New Paltz, corresponding author)
Year2024
Volume19
Issue3
Pages351-367
Publication date2024-07-02
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueLatin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1744-2222 • E-ISSN: 1744-2230
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/17442222.2024.2306119
OpenAlexW4391006364
LanguageEN
References cited14

Since 2010, Haitian migration to non-traditional destinations such as Brazil and Chile intensified. After a series of shifts in Brazilian and Chilean immigration policies that restricted and criminalized Haitian migrants, many Haitians began seeking asylum elsewhere. That is in this context that Haitian refugees began arriving in Mexico in the past ten years, which presented a challenge to the political, cultural, and racial Mexican imaginary about immigration. Through the critical reading of Sobrevivientes: ciudadanos del mundo, a testimonial narrative written by Pascal Ustin Dubuisson, a Haitian asylum seeker, I argue that 'testimonio,' as a genre, offers a space of critical reflection to better understand the connections between dispossession, exploitation, and forcible displacement in the continent. In so doing, Dubuisson's account also requires us to reconsider the limits of testimonio, its political project of emancipation, to critically engage with the history of anti-Blackness and anti-Black immigration restriction in Latin America

Advertising · Art · Ethnology · Race (biology · Sociology · Testimonial · Anthropology · Cuban History and Society · Gender Studies · History · Latin American and Latino Studies · Politics and Society in Latin America

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