Ciudadanos de ningún lugar: Emigrantes indocumentados en las narrativas de Regina Rheda

Translated title of the contribution: Citizens of nowhere: Undocumented migrants in Regina Rheda’s narratives

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Abstract

This article presents an analysis of the representation of Brazilian migrants in two narratives by writer Regina Rheda: the novel Pau-de-arara classe turística (1996) and the short story “O santuário” (2002). Taking as a point of departure Saskia Sassen’s work on global labor circuits at the turn of the twenty-first century, I argue that Rheda represents the Brazilian migrants in question as “citizens of nowhere.” Her characters acquire this status as economic crises resulting from a neoliberal agenda transform work relations between the South and the North of the globe, limiting their access to basic citizen rights in their own country. At the same time, their condition as undocumented workers in the countries to where they migrate relegates them to exploitation and, therefore, stresses the precariousness of their situation as citizens.

Translated title of the contributionCitizens of nowhere: Undocumented migrants in Regina Rheda’s narratives
Original languageSpanish
Pages (from-to)19-33
Number of pages15
JournalVeredas
Issue number28
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 31 2019

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Language and Linguistics
  • Communication
  • Visual Arts and Performing Arts
  • Linguistics and Language
  • Literature and Literary Theory

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