Notes on Repatriation

Abstract

Finding a sense of belonging in the country of your birth is challenging when one is raised elsewhere. This short reflection poetically examines the repatriation to Cuba of a black women raised in Germany. This a personal story of the joy and pain of such a move, of being a foreigner and yet at home in Havana.

Keywords:

• Repatriation
• belonging
• otherness
• Cuba
• Germany

Notes

About the Author

Esmeralda is a Black, queer, transcultural activist. She has an MA in Modern Languages and Linguistics. While born in Cuba, she arrived in Germany with her parents at the age of six. She repatriated back to Cuba upon her retirement. She is active in the Initiative of Black People in Germany (ISD), is active in anti‐racist, feminist, LGBTQI and Afro‐Cuban movements.

Notes

1 National Bureau for Statistics and Information(ONEI)in Cuba, http://www.one.cu, consulted: 17.04.2019.

2 Alain Badiou, Théorie du sujet, Editiones du Seiul, 1982. Judith Butler, Sprache, Politik, Zugehörigkeit, Diaphanes: Zürich and Berlin, 2007