Cuando el derecho se convierte en una barrera simbólica

The author explores how the insistence on extending rights towards the women and men immigrants who arrive in our European countries in search of a better life, can in reality become a symbolic barrier that does not allow us to see or touch the real problem we are dealing with: our relationship with those men and women. A reflection on the law that the author makes parallel to the one she experienced in feminism, and particularly from the feminism of difference, when the focus of the conquest of rights was displaced towards living out feminine freedom; when in the place of rights, we spoke above all of mediations. When in Italy there is an attitude of discomfort being spread towards the Islamic difference, of antipathy in the face of this presence that is more and more numerous and evident, she thinks it is necessary to find gestures that go beyond extending some rights (of some, of all). Paths that the author has found in and recovered from women’s politics: those that lead us to find concrete mediations, be it in words, acts or gestures. In the place of the law, mediations. And, as it was in feminism to recognise the debt with the mother for what she has given us, knowing that I owe gratitude to those who work for me is an important step that dissolves
the barrier.