The strength of mourning, the power of memory

migrant resistance to extremism and violence

Abstract

This study analyzes the mourning experience as a pedagogical strategy of resistance for migrants subjected to violence perpetrated by the State and by radicalized far-right groups. The reification of individuals considered unwanted and the adoption of a hunting logic from which the State becomes predator and the so-called unwanted become prey, is related to the far-right rise in recent decades. The critic perspectives of Theodore Adorno and Paulo Freire are discussed to support the proposal of writing as a work of mourning with the potential to build memory, affirm identity and claim the human condition inalienably worthy of the migrant, through an education aimed at emancipation.