Apuntes para una semiótica de la frontera

Abstract

The article focuses on frontiers from a semiotic perspective. They are a classic object of research for human and social sciences, especially in geography and cultural anthropology. They have become a phenomenon of much relevance and global visibility, in the often controversial center of the attention of citizens, politicians, and the media. On the one hand, as always in the history of cultures, attention has grown for displacements of people throughout the world have increased, because of the geopolitical crises that they suffer on the planet, but also thanks to the new facility with which these displacements are now imagined, organized and carried on. On the other hand, public attention towards frontiers grows because the conditions of their media representation change too.