Migrant women’s bodies between coloniality, racialization, and resistance. queer, black, and decolonial pedagogical perspectives

Abstract

This article explores the representations and lived experiences of migrant women’s bodies through the lenses of Black and decolonial feminisms, as well as queer pedagogies. Grounded in a theoretical framework that intertwines the coloniality of power, the racialization of bodies, and situated practices of resistance, the article examines how educational dispositifs may either reproduce processes of racialization and marginalization or, conversely, foster spaces of subjectivation, care, and epistemic justice. Adopting a theoretical and critical approach, the contribution develops an interpretive framework that brings feminist and pedagogical perspectives into tension in order to rethink educational processes in migratory contexts. The analysis highlights the transformative potential of intersectional, embodied, and relational pedagogical orientations, capable of re-signifying migrant women’s bodies as sites of knowledge production and regeneration, as well as of agency and political possibility.