Border Selves: Experiences, Positions, and Inner-Others from the Spanish-Moroccan Border

Español

Matías-García

et al. 2023

Culture & Psychology

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Migration can be understood as a breach in life experience, creating a transition, and identity narratives as a strategy to repair this breach. Our study focuses on how two classical dilemmas that characterize this process are navigated in the narrative of migration of the participant (An Ecuadorian migrant woman in Andalusia): self versus others, and continuity of the self over time, despite changes. A semi-structured interview was conducted to achieve the objectives of the study. The interview was transcribed and analyzed on three axes: 1) Migration settings, identifying the dominant spaces of interaction where the migration narrative takes place; 2) Migration I-positions and voices, identifying the I-positions and voices involved in the narrative; and 3) Continuities and discontinuities in the identity narrative. The results demonstrated that the main settings and positions in the narrative were related to nationality, gender, and religion in relation to the dilemmas of self versus others and continuity versus change. These positions help the participant negotiate self-continuity in front of the changes associated with migration and the resistance against xenophobic discourses and positions in the host country. Results support the analysis of the transition processes associated to migration based on the concept of proculturation.

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Repairing the breach: identity narratives of a Latin American woman in Andalusia

Español

Matías-García

et al. 2023

Culture & Psychology

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“…Español and Cornejo (2021) found fusion in women on both sides reflecting different bordering processes. On the Moroccan side, this fusion seemed to occur due to the inclusion of narratives from the Spanish colonial period, or of the symbolic power that being identified with being Spanish has, given the relative position of power in the past and present world order.…”

Section: Border Identity Narrativesmentioning

confidence: 96%

“…These studies were done in the Spanish–Moroccan borderland by interviewing people on both sides who cross the border for various reasons or activities on the other side (Español, 2020; Español & Cornejo, 2021; Español et al, 2018). The Spanish–Moroccan border is composed of a maritime border along the Straits of Gibraltar and between Morocco and the Canary Islands, and two land crossings at the Spanish cities of Ceuta and Melilla on the African continent (Ferrer-Gallardo, 2008).…”

Section: Border Identity Narrativesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Border identities: Theoretical approach to the study of self from bordering processes

Español

Cornejo

2021

Theory & Psychology

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This article develops a theoretical approach to the study of identity narratives from the concept of the bordering process. The first section describes the theoretical concepts that sustain the proposal, in particular, the concept of border as a mediating artifact, the theoretical concept of the bordering process as a social practice, and finally, identity narratives and the dialogical perspective of the self. The second section analyzes the proposals and limitations of some studies on identity narratives in international borderlands. In the same section, we develop our theoretical proposal for studying border identity narratives, which attempts to overcome some limitations of previous studies and respond to the debate on the role of others in the construction of the self. We conclude that the inclusion of the border as a semiotic artifact and the bordering process in the construction of the self provide a new perspective of identity narratives as border narratives for the study of border experiences throughout human development.

“…Para completar el análisis, utilizaremos el concepto de voz. Entendemos la voz, término tomado de Bajtín, como los discursos de los ‘otros’ significativos, que la persona adopta e inserta en sus narrativas como parte de la tarea de dar sentido a la experiencia (Español & Cornejo, en prensa). Es decir, es el discurso — entendido como sinónimo de contenido — emitido por una entidad, una personalidad o consciencia hablante (Wertsch, 1993), expresado así bajo una intencionalidad.…”

Section: Memorias De La Dictadura En España Un Análisis De Las Narrat...unclassified

“…To complete the analysis, we will use the concept of voice. We understand that voice, a term taken from Bakhtin, is the discourses of the significant ‘other’ that the person adopts and inserts into their own narratives as part of the task of giving meaning to experience (Español & Cornejo, in press). That is to say, it is the discourse — understood as a synonym of content — issued by an entity, a personality or a speaker’s conscience (Wertsch, 1993), expressed as such under an intentionality.…”

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confidence: 99%

Memories of the dictatorship in Spain. An analysis of the narratives from three generations / Memorias de la dictadura en España. Un análisis de las narrativas de tres generaciones

Lojo

2019

Estudios de Psicología

This study will investigate the narratives related by the members of three different generations within two different families on their memories of the Franco dictatorship. The first generation lived through Francoism, the second the democratic transition, and the third were born in a democratic country. Based on a social and discursive conception of memory and identity, this study is carried out using semi-structured interviews as a data collection tool, which we then thematically analyse, together with aspects of the participants’ positions and voices. The interviews are connected according to the factors of generation and family, and we analyse the similarities and differences. This is how the influence of both is seen in each individual’s memories and identities, in addition to how their political ideology is configured.