The migrant populations and otherness: notes and reflections from contemporary people displacement

Abstract

In this article, we aim at exploring how alterity contemporary debates address the question of migrant people. In dialogue with current studies about differences, we can consider as this analysis main framework the questions raised by Touraine (1998) when this author asked in which way we can combine our differences in a unique collective life. We will bring about some questions on the “strange” perspective (Koltai, Maffesoli, Bauman), consider the reaffirmation of differences debates (Santos, Wieviorka, Touraine) to finally observe renewed forms of discrimination, asking if it would be possible to consider them in what Foulcault (2002) consider as contemporary forms of racism.