Racist discourse and practices in spanish administration. An approach from anthropology

Authors

  • Juan R. Méndez UNED

Abstract

Through the ethnography performed, the text reflects on issues of racism and discrimination practiced by the Spanish public administration, and that the official discourse of XXI century states seem to overcome (or relegated to countries “undemocratic” and “backward”), showing how they never actually disappeared but remain linked in the most underlying ideological structures of nation states. Questions such as identity, belonging, tradition, citizenship... serve to create and legitimize physical and mental borders built around alterity, while hiding much of the reality that a migrant have to pass through in the Spanish state. Information barely reaches
or matters to most of the “citizens” who walk among ghosts unwary, silhouettes passed hardly notice or understanding of their situation

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Published

2014-11-04

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How to Cite

Méndez, J. R. (2014). Racist discourse and practices in spanish administration. An approach from anthropology. Antropología Experimental, 14. https://revistaselectronicas.ujaen.es/index.php/rae/article/view/1784