Migration, Identity, and Belonging: Defining Borders and Boundaries of the Homeland (Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies)

This volume responds to the question: How do you know when you belong to a country? In other words, when is the nation-state a homeland? The boundaries and borders defining who belongs and who does not proliferate in the age of globalization, although they may not coincide with national jurisdictions. Contributors to this collection engage with how these boundaries are made and sustained, examining how belonging is mediated by material relations of power, capital, and circuits of communication technology on the one side and representations of identity, nation, and homeland on the other. The authors’ diverse methodologies, ranging from archival research, oral histories, literary criticism, and ethnography attend to these contradictions by studying 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. This book appeals to students in classes related to race, ethnicity, and nation; citizenship; representation and aesthetics; media and social movements; and globalization. Cover 1 Half Title 2 Series Page 3 Title Page 4 Copyright Page 5 Table of Contents 6 Introduction: Theorizing Belonging against and beyond Imagined Communities 8 Part I: Territories, Sovereignties, and Legal Geographies 36 1 Migration Law as a State (Re)producing Mechanism 38 2 Migration: A Threat to the European Identity? A Legal Analysis of the Borders and Boundaries of the European Homeland 46 3 “Entitlement” Warfare: Indigenous and Immigrant Welfare and Remapping Neoliberal National (B)orders 55 4 “When Is a Migrant a Refugee?”: Hierarchizing Migrant Life 74 5 El país-de-en-medio, or the Plural Stories of Legalities in the US-Mexican Borderland 88 Part II: Narrating the Homeland, Mediating Belonging 104 6 And Europe Said, Let There Be Borders: Autoethnographic Reflections on Border Crossings and Violence 106 7 Departures and Arrivals in a Columbian World 115 8 “Dreaming of Addis Ababa”: In the Afterlives of Inter-War Christian Internationalism 124 9 “Politics Are Not for Small People”: Expectations for Tibetan Youth, and the Question of Deviancy in Exile 132 10 “Never Come Back, You Hear Me!”: Negotiating “Bulgarian-ness” and “Homeland” in Public Discourses on Emigration 149 11 Dreamer Narratives: Redefining Immigration, Redefining Belonging 161 12 Indigenous Sovereignty and Nationhood: The Standing Rock Movement 170 List of Contributors 182 Index 186 Migration;,Entitlement;,Migrant,Refugee;,Immigration;,Autoethnographic,Reflections;,Indigenous,Sovereignty Migration,Entitlement,Migrant Refugee,Immigration,Autoethnographic Reflections,Indigenous Sovereignty "Migration, Identity, and Belonging How do you know when you belong to a country? When is the nation-state a homeland? The boundaries and borders which define who belongs and who does not proliferate in the age of globalization, whether or not they coincide with national jurisdictions. Contributors to this collection engage with how boundaries are made and sustained, examining how belonging is mediated by material relations of power, capital, and circuits of communication technology on the one side and representations of identity, nation, and homeland on the other. The authors' diverse methodologies, ranging from archival research, oral histories, literary criticism, and ethnography attend to these contradictions by studying 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. This book will appeal to students in classes related to race, ethnicity, and nation; citizenship; representation and aesthetics; media and social movements; and globalization. The book also participates in multidisciplinary conversations concerning law and culture as well as communication studies, cultural studies, ethnic studies, political science, and media studies"-- Provided by publisher