Full Description
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.
Contents
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
