Home Institution
Virginia Commonwealth University
Publication Date
Spring 2019
Abstract
Antes de que Argentina fuera una estado-nación oficial, ha habido una invisibilización de lxs afro-descendientes y afro-argentinxs que continúa hoy bajo la negación de la existencia y los derechos de lxs inmigrantes senegaleses. Desde la década de 1990, ha habido una progresiva afluencia de migrantes senegaleses, por lo general de varones jóvenes, a Buenos Aires, Argentina, con el sueño de prosperidad económica para compartir con sus familias en Senegal. A su llegada, se enfrentan a varias barreras lingüísticas y culturales para adaptarse al estilo de vida argentino. Debido a las leyes de inmigración actuales, no son capaces de obtener trabajos formales, lo que ha llevado a la mayoría de ellxs a ser vendedores ambulantes en áreas altamente pobladas, como Plaza Once. Este artículo aborda cómo la represión institucional y policial y la negación de innumerables derechos humanos internacionales y nacionales se han exacerbado bajo los gobiernos neoliberales de Macri y Larreta, dentro de CABA, desde 2015. En un esfuerzo por iniciar un diálogo sobre el pasado problemático y el presente de Argentina, con acciones y lenguaje racistas, este trabajo busca visibilizar a lxs inmigrantes senegaleses, tanto en su presencia física como miembros de la sociedad argentina como de sus experiencias cotidianas de resistencia y supervivencia.
Before Argentina was an official nation-state, there has been an invisibilizacion of African descendents and African-Argentinians that continues today with the current focus on negating the existence and rights Senegalese migrants. Since the 1990s there has been a gradual influx of Senegalese migrants, typically young males, to Buenos Aires, Argentina with the dream of economic prosperity to share with their families in Senegal. Upon arrival, they face numerous language and cultural barriers to adjusting to the Argentina lifestyle. Due to current immigration laws, they are unable to get formal jobs, which has led to the majority of them being street vendors in highly populated areas like Plaza Once. This article addresses who institucional and police repression and the denial of countless international and national human rights have exacerbated under the neoliberal governments of Macri and Larreta within the autonomous city of Buenos Aires since 2015. In an effort to open up conversations about Argentina’s problematic past and present with racist actions and language, this article seeks to visibilize the Senegalese migrants, both in their physical presence as members of the Argentine society and of their daily experiences of resistance and survival.
Disciplines
Development Studies | Human Rights Law | Latin American History | Latin American Languages and Societies | Latin American Studies | Migration Studies | Politics and Social Change | Race and Ethnicity | Race, Ethnicity and Post-Colonial Studies
Recommended Citation
Doane, Madeline, "La vulneración de los derechos e invisibilización sobre lxs migrantes senegaleses en CABA / The violation of human rights and the invisibilization of Senegalese immigrants in the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires" (2019). Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection. 3123.
https://digitalcollections.sit.edu/isp_collection/3123
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Development Studies Commons, Human Rights Law Commons, Latin American History Commons, Latin American Languages and Societies Commons, Latin American Studies Commons, Migration Studies Commons, Politics and Social Change Commons, Race and Ethnicity Commons, Race, Ethnicity and Post-Colonial Studies Commons
Program Name
Argentina: Social Movements and Human Rights