“The enemy at home”. Latin American immigration as a threat to American cultural identity: the identity from international relations

Abstract

This article is part of my doctoral thesis (2015) and is determined from a theoretical perspective sustained from the constructivist development through a descriptive and explanatory approach. How it is established and formulated perception in different social actors?, or How the various actors are expressed on this immigration? Begs the question, how and why some migratory flows are perceived as a threat to cultural identity, host depends on where and how it defines itself. In general we find a set of principles that range from establishing who allowed; why they are supported; and what type of migration is accepted. Cultural and identity factors have been little discussed by traditional theories, this is due to the difficulty in their quantification and which were not part of high politics. In the nineties Huntington proposed a simplified description of reality, arguing that we were in a new era, where cultural factors would be the determinants of the international system. The theory of the "clash of civilizations" determined the identification of "enemy away from home". In his latest book Who are we? makes this theory point under the "enemy at home", the determination of a symptom, a speech that follows the logic of "scapegoat". Thus, this term has been used synonymously with excuse, main argument, or screen, understand the value of a speech arguing and validating attitudes for those wishing to undertake a campaign against each other, that is, the game of "Nationalists Charter" anything goes in defense of our supposed identity.