The violent nature of interculturality

Images from Central American migration

Abstract

This article critically addresses the issue of interculturality from violence and domination based on the case of Central American migration that crosses our country to the United States. It delves into the perspective of interculturality as a condition of contemporary societies that comes to be configured not in a horizontal way, as the images of common sense insist on this issue, but within a framework of perceptions and policies of exclusion that reduce the migrant to the figure of a non-person: as a commodity and object within the international labor market and as a threat to national security. In the end, understanding interculturality as a possibility, we point out some supportive and hopeful phenomena of Mexican civil society that offer clues to modify practices in the face of the experience of interculturality in which migrants are inserted by affirming the irreducible character of the Other.