Diaspora, interculturallity and memory in En tierra extraña (Iciar Bollain, 2014)

Abstract

The work explores the relationships between the processes of transnational mobility and the construction of subjectivities in migrant representations in the documentary En tierra extraña (IIcíar Bollaín,2014), whose main methodology is a sociocritical analysis of the film articulated to the contextualization of Spanish cinematography in the feld of Migrations. The human displacements read from contemporary Spanish emigres’’ flm images are stressed in the most recent Spanish cinematography,, especially in the intensifcation of the socia perception of the phenomenon of emigrant mobility from the economic crisis of 2008, as well as the memory experience,, diaspora and interculturality are observed In Bollain’s film in relation to the temporal narratives underlying the recent displacements of Spaniards in Europe.