Abstract
The article discusses the tensions that arise in the process of migration and linguistic immersion, through an autoethnography. From the author's experience as a Latin American migrant in Brazil, it explores how a certain notion of "language mastery" that rejects specific accents and forms of expressiveness can be an instrument of power and a space of coloniality over the migrant subject and their hybrid identity. How does the migrant identity and its "accented speech" challenge us? What estrangement does it generate and why? These are some of the provocative questions that guide the reflections.
As part of the discussion, the need to reclaim language as a diverse space that can either welcome or exclude is analyzed, as well as proposing new ways of thinking and politicizing cultural diversity, facilitating an idea of interculturality. It establishes itself as a critical cultural policy against the models of State, Democracy, and Nation that aim to erase the diversity of peoples and nationalities.
Keywords:
language; coloniality; migration; interculturality; autoethnography