In this research we review academic publications on media and political discourse about migration published in Spain between 2014 and 2019. The review has been carried out following the principles of the Rapid Review and Rapid Evidence Assessment of the Literature applied to discourse analytical research. The researchers have posed three main questions: a) Which representation of migrants and migration has been described in Spain during the last 5 years? b) Which particularities can be observed in the representation of migrant women? c) How are migrant children represented? Once the selection criteria have been applied, a final corpus of 18 recents publications has been selected. The researchers have found diverse and complex nuances in the discourse about immigration in Spain, both in the media and in political discourse. There are also relevant silences in the sphere of media discourse and little research addressing specifically the discourse on migrant women, children and the contemporary anti-migration discourse in the media and political sphere.
In this paper, we examine how schools in Catalonia (Spain) are responding to the needs of migrant students by challenging the limitations of the curriculum. The paper presents some of the findings of an ongoing project titled Migrant Children and Communities in a Transforming Europe (MiCREATE). It is based on 31 semi‐structured interviews and 6 focus groups conducted with 78 participants (teachers, school representatives, and community members such as child psychologists, social workers, and other collaborators) from six state primary and secondary schools in Catalonia (Spain). Analysis of the interviews showed that Spain still has a monolithic conception of the curriculum, with Eurocentrism and ethnocentrism at its core. Nonetheless, school staff are producing pedagogical practices that challenge this position in order to respond to the needs of migrant students. We argue that it is necessary to consider other frames of reference such as critical interculturality, decolonial perspectives, and critical cosmopolitanisms in order to create collective and multiple experiences of belonging that go beyond the dominant cultural identity.
¿Qué formas de agencia política puede ofrecer la ficción cinematográfica a las luchas por la libertad de movimiento actuales? El objetivo de este artículo es esbozar ángulos concretos de una propuesta teórica construida en torno a los procesos experimentados a través del colectivo audiovisual La Barraca Transfronteriza, en una búsqueda de aportar a estos procesos tanto una visión compleja como una reflexión metodológica. A partir de un conjunto de procesos experimentales de creación audiovisual proponemos una búsqueda de referentes metodológicos e históricos que sinteticen los aprendizajes de estas prácticas extrapolándolos más allá de las vivencias y el contexto en el que emergieron. No se trata sin embargo de manufacturar recetas de creación, sino más bien de afrontar cuestiones éticas en entornos de creación colaborativa donde se parte de lo irrepetible e inatrapable de la plena conciencia de los sujetos que intervienen en la creación, atendiendo a los propios procesos como espacios de apertura, a los modos de relación desde una perspectiva política, a los contextos y a las representaciones que se ponen en juego.
Which forms of political agency can cinematic fiction offer to the contemporary struggles for mobility rights? The purpose of this article is to shape specific angles for a theoretical proposal built during the trajectory of the audiovisual collective La Barraca Transfronteriza, in order to provide these processes with both a complex vision and a methodological reflection. In this paper we propose an inquiry of both methodological and historical references to synthesize the knowledge that emerges from specific political and cinematic practices by extrapolating them beyond the experiences and context in which they emerged. This paper does not aim however to manufacture recipes for creation, but rather approaching ethical issues in collaborative creation environments where the starting point is the unrepeatable and unattainable full awareness of the subjects involved in creation, by paying attention to the processes themselves as spaces of openness, to the modes of relationship from a political perspective, to the contexts and representations involved.
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