Migration, Identity, and Belonging

Defining Borders and Boundaries of the Homeland
Herausgeber: Franz, Margaret; Silva, Kumarini

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume responds to the question: How do you know when you belong to a country? Contributors examine how the practices of migration and identification, procured and produced through global exchanges of bodies and goods that cross borders, foreclose those borders to (re)produce, and (re)imagine the homeland and its boundaries.

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Produktdetails

• Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 188
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. August 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 280g
• ISBN-13: 9781032400686
• ISBN-10: 1032400684
• Artikelnr.: 69899625

Autorenporträt

Margaret Franz is Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Tampa. She researches legal communication as it relates to race, coloniality, and national belonging. Her current project investigates the evolution of citizenship status in the United States by analyzing how official methods of interpretation coevolve with and respond to vernacular legal cultures that challenge state authority to define and enforce citizenship status. Her work on the cultural politics of birthright citizenship has appeared in Social Identities, Advances in the History of Rhetoric, and Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies. Kumarini Silva is Associate Professor of Communication the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is the author of Brown Threat: Identification in the Security State (University of Minnesota Press, 2016) and co-editor of Feminist Erasures: Challenging Backlash Culture (Palgrave UK, 2015). She current research extends the exploration of racialized identification in Brown Threat to understand how affective relationships, especially calls to and of love, animate regulatory practices that are deeply cruel and alienating.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Theorizing Belonging against and beyond Imagined Communities
PART I 1. Migration Law as a State (Re)producing Mechanism 2. Migration: A
Threat to the European Identity? 3. "Entitlement" Warfare 4. "When Is a
Migrant a Refugee 5. El pais-de-en-medio, or the Plural Stories of
Legalities in the US-Mexican Borderland PART II 6. And Europe Said, Let
There Be Borders 7. Departures and Arrivals in a Columbian World 8.
"Dreaming of Addis Ababa" 9. "Politics Are Not for Small People" 10. "Never
Come Back, You Hear Me!" 11. DREAMer Narratives 12. Indigenous Sovereignty
and Nationhood