Transnational Identities and the Media

Abstract

This chapter came out of my own experience as a ‘foreigner’ and my interest in finding out about a Latin American diaspora in Liverpool, where I lived for few years. The order of that experience could be translated into two points: first, on the issue of ethnic identity and diaspora, particularly in relation to the Latin American women, and second, on the role of the ‘diasporic’ media in shaping a transnational identity. This is not to suggest that the diasporic and mainstream media define identities but rather that they might play a part in creating communicative spaces of inclusion and belongingness or/and segregation. In this sense, mediation is a political process as mainstream media mostly define the representation of ethnic minorities’ identities in the public sphere while diasporic media allow for resistance, appropriation, and counter representation as well as identity assertion. In fact, the role of the diasporic media is particularly important in mediating the experience of hybridity and migration of diasporic groups as it works as a third cultural space where diasporas are creating sites for representation and where different forms of resistance and syncretism are valued. (Naficy and Gabriel, 1993) These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

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