Políticas de pertenencia y relaciones coloniales: la inmigración peruana en España

Abstract

This paper tries to contribute to the analysis of the immigration in Spain with a historical and global approach, with the aim to overcome the common spatial and temporal analytical frames used in this type of studies, limited to the present and the political unit of the nation-state. I try to open new perspectives to understand the process of identity formation among immigrants collectivities, with the case of the brotherhoods of el Señor de los Milagros in Madrid, founded by Peruvian immigrants in Madrid. I focus on the Peruvian immigrants’ experience, as postcolonial subjects coming back to the old metropolis, placed themselves both in the center of multiple systems of reference —facilitated by a global world— and in identity categories imposed by receiving society.