Resumen

TORRAS-CONANGLA, Rosa. The Identity Politics of Memories and Belonging in a Dynamic Frontier. LiminaR [online]. 2016, vol.14, n.2, pp.150-162. ISSN 2007-8900.

By comparing two waves of migrants that arrived, in distinct moments and under different circumstances, to an area delimited by the basin of the Candelaria River in Campeche, this article strives to explain how a sense of belonging is constructed in borderlands where the dynamic of the population is defined by constant mobility. The distinct variants of colonization, and above all the presence of unequal governmental support, has created disputes for the memory of origin among the current population of this frontier zone, enhanced by the Mexican state’s initiatives to activate memories that consolidate their hegemony over the furthest limits of their territory and in opposition to the neighboring country of Guatemala.

Palabras llave : colonization; borderlands; migration; construction of memory; territoriality.