¿Qué desconocemos al desconocer?: Más allá de los prejuicios hermenéuticos hacia los migrantes

Abstract

This paper tries to reveal the epistemic opportunity costs that hegemonic communities usually go through, in their testimonial exchanges, with the migrant as otherness. This article aims to prove that, even if there is a consciously reflective desire on the part of such communities to break away from their own system of representation of reality, such an undertaking could be epistemically impracticable. The methodology used appeals to the review of specialized literature based on an exploratory, non-experimental design and of a qualitative nature. In this sense, one of the main findings of this booklet will preach that, transcendently to all yearning aimed at knowing the migrant (regardless of their country or region of origin), the very axiology to which the hegemonic groups appeal to represent such otherness Not only could it not be reflexively noticed by the former, but even worse, it would be perpetuated in order to provide a universe of meaning and belonging to their identity. In conclusion, the present work will maintain that considering the testimony of the migrant as alterity will be the only means by virtue of which the hegemonic communities could identify their own conditioning and epistemic limitations.