WEBDIASPORA: Migration, ITCs and collective memory

Abstract

The webdiaspora, while space of reordering of experiences and social practices of immigrants and diasporic communities, contributes necessarily in the production of individual and collective existential prints and trails in the subjective and symbolic plan. Yet, the question is that if such cognitive configuration, from an openly "a-espacial" nature, constitutes a differential form of support to the traditional "collective memory" proposed by Maurice Halbwachs or it is limited to reinforce the modalities of sociability which prescinds naturally from the physical space. From a theoretical reflexion that links the notions of "collective memory" by Halbwachs himself, of "nostalgic space" by Albdelmalek Sayad and of "transnationalism" explored by many authors, we understand that, even if the "spatial collective memory" could not be substituted or overlap the "social space", webdiaspora does not stop offering valuable mnemonic and interactive subsidy to all immigrant communities that are exiled; as it gathers and makes accessible informational registers of an identitary character that contributes to the consolidation of a feeling of belonging to the group and the maintenance of transnational communicative links.