MIGRANT IDENTITIES. INTERCULTURAL AND POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES

The divide between Us and the Others also determines the way according to which the world is rated. According to Stuart Hall, an English sociologist of Jamaican origin, we cannot deal with words such as “subject”, “identity” or “global” as if they had predetermined meanings. In fact, if we deal with the subject not from the cosmopolitan intellectual’s, the university professor’s or the world theoretician scholar’s point of view but from the one of the migrants, of those living on the fringe, of the nomads, of the frightened minorities – according to the definition given by
Arjun Appadurai, an American anthropologist of native origins – who are compelled to live in detention camps passed off as town or refugee camp in Israel, Darfur or Sierra Leone, then all discourses on identities, cultures, rights, globalization, war, violence take on quite different meanings.