De fronteras y exilios

Abstract

When presented with the oppotunity to dedicate this volume to the "frontiers", we had never imagined the diversity of approaches that we could receive on the topic. We were greatly surprised, and we hope that the reader will enjoy the variety of perspectives and conceptions of the frontier. It is undeniable that we live surrounded by physical, geographical, metaphorical, internal, etc. frontiers and, at the same time, we can't deny the human need to delimit, label, define oneself as opposed to the others. Throughout history, the frontiers have turned and still tuen into red. It is the language of violence and imcomprehension towards the 'otherness', of wars to defend or invade alien territories. In this case, the frontier is understood as a barrier, as a dividing line between "we" and "they", considered different because there is a total lack of tolerance and a clear desire for non-acceptance and exclusion that turns the 'other' into a stranger.