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The now-dissolved "Institute of Cultures" of Melilla sponsored the hiring of a research assistant during the summer of 2018, who helped in the compilation of quantitative data and interview transcriptions. The rest of our fieldwork in the city, from 2016 to the present, has been pursued independently, without any official funding.

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Silencing mestizaje at the Euro-African Border. Anti-Racist Feminist Perspectives on Cross-Border Lives

Publicated to:Journal of Borderlands Studies. 39 (1): NULL-57 - 2024-01-01 39(1), DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2022.2031254

Authors: Suarez-Navaz, Liliana; Suarez, Iker;

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Univ Autonoma Madrid, Polit Sci & Int Relations, Madrid, Spain - Author
Univ Autonoma Madrid, Social Anthropol, Madrid, Spain - Author

Abstract

Dramatically marked by today's European border regime with Africa and a geohistorical oppositional dynamic between Islam and the West, the enclave of Melilla also stands out in Spain for its ethnic, religious and racial diversity. Based on long term ethnographic work, we explore the lived experiences and discourses of people calling themselves mestizas, people of mixed ethnoreligious backgrounds. Delving into the tension of being invisible in discourse and public policies, yet certainly present in the city, their condition is experienced as a relational affective field of care rooted in everyday practices. These practices are silenced by both a rhetorical emphasis on intercultural convivencia and the local and global, symbolic and material bordering of the city. We suggest that the visibilization of the transcultural practices derived from mestizaje sets a perfect ethnographic space to explore current challenges around borders, post-colonial feminist thinking and global mobility.

Keywords

Border studiesMediterranean studiesMelillaMestizajeMulticulturalismPostcolonial feminismRace

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Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal Journal of Borderlands Studies due to its progression and the good impact it has achieved in recent years, according to the agency Scopus (SJR), it has become a reference in its field. In the year of publication of the work, 2024 there are still no calculated indicators, but in 2023, it was in position , thus managing to position itself as a Q1 (Primer Cuartil), in the category Law.

From a relative perspective, and based on the normalized impact indicator calculated from the Field Citation Ratio (FCR) of the Dimensions source, it yields a value of: 3.54, which indicates that, compared to works in the same discipline and in the same year of publication, it ranks as a work cited above average. (source consulted: Dimensions Jun 2025)

Specifically, and according to different indexing agencies, this work has accumulated citations as of 2025-06-30, the following number of citations:

  • Scopus: 3

Impact and social visibility

From the perspective of influence or social adoption, and based on metrics associated with mentions and interactions provided by agencies specializing in calculating the so-called "Alternative or Social Metrics," we can highlight as of 2025-06-30:

  • The use, from an academic perspective evidenced by the Altmetric agency indicator referring to aggregations made by the personal bibliographic manager Mendeley, gives us a total of: 8.
  • The use of this contribution in bookmarks, code forks, additions to favorite lists for recurrent reading, as well as general views, indicates that someone is using the publication as a basis for their current work. This may be a notable indicator of future more formal and academic citations. This claim is supported by the result of the "Capture" indicator, which yields a total of: 8 (PlumX).

With a more dissemination-oriented intent and targeting more general audiences, we can observe other more global scores such as:

  • The Total Score from Altmetric: 1.
  • The number of mentions on the social network X (formerly Twitter): 2 (Altmetric).

Leadership analysis of institutional authors

There is a significant leadership presence as some of the institution’s authors appear as the first or last signer, detailed as follows: First Author (SUAREZ NAVAZ, LILIANA) and Last Author (SUAREZ LACALLE, IRENE).

the author responsible for correspondence tasks has been SUAREZ NAVAZ, LILIANA.