Living the border: Social and cultural practices from the sidelines

WINIKOR WAGNER MARIANA

Estudios Fronterizos

Universidad Autónoma de Baja California

Lugar: Baja California; Año: 2016 vol. 17 p. 100 - 116

Migrants, while in a position of subordination and vulnerability in the host so-ciety, can be defined as subjects of analysis of cultural studies. It is from thistheoretical framework, which will investigate the social and cultural practicesof Brazilian migrants settled in the northeast of the province of Misiones, Ar-gentina. We focus our attention on analyzing whether these practices are trulyways to resist the dominant culture or simply constitute forms of reproductionand naturalization of them. Through four concrete practices (portuñol, el bri-que, the buying and selling of improvements and spontaneous occupation ofprivate land) will reach the conclusion that the same evidence loans, grants,amalgams, conflicts, subordination and yet interstices creativity with the dom-inant culture. It shows the relational character that owns the popular culturewith the dominant culture and its position of subordination and domination.