Representándose al “otro migrante”: el poder judicial como institución estatal-nacional

Abstract

The paper is about the problem of the construction of the otherness of international migrant. First, it explores some theoretical categories about the idea of nation and nationality, then analyze what are some of the social representations of judiciary of Metropolitan Area of Buenos Aires (AMBA) about external migrants recently arrived to our country. So, from a dimension of these representations relating to the construction of national identity and other attributes associated with the "personality of migrants" tries to see how it affects the way the respondents, like institutional voices, conceive access rights of migrants in question