Integrando vocablos: Identidad y extranjero. El caso de los Hispanos en los Estados Unidos

The subject is about identity and its linking with the concept of foreigner. It begins by specifying the meaning of the term identity, to continue explaining foreigner's term according to Simmel, Bauman and Schutz. The immigrant is compared to the foreigner; using the Hispanic immigration to the United States as an example of the phenomenon of the mediation of identities, their cultures and their conflicts. It emphasizes the Huntington´s attitude concerning the latin/hispan population in this country, which is an aproach showing opposition, rejection and fear from otherness and difference.