The Barthesian myth and testimonial mutilation: on the epistemic loss of migrants' voices

This article will try to prove that the dialectic inherent to the Barthesian myth would explain the intrinsically dispensable nature of the migrant identity for any given host society. To this end, we will depart from the hypothesis according to which such myth would promote, in the host society, a sense of organic solidarity intended to exclude any syncretism with other social corporations. Such a consideration will allow us to arrive at the conclusion that the recipients of such a narrative would end up accepting the inevitability of migrant marginalization, by inexorably identifying with the phenomenological and symbolic universe carried by such myth.