Wandering and settled tribes

Biopolitics, Citizenship, and the Racialized Migrant

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4840795
AutoresRobert Topinka (0000-0001-9795-3999, Northwestern University, autor correspondente), Robert J Topinka
Ano2016
Volume20
Fascículo3-4
Páginas444-456
Data de publicação2016-05-18
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoCitizenship Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1362-1025 • E-ISSN: 1469-3593
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13621025.2015.1107026
OpenAlexW2179859413
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas28

This paper argues that purportedly outdated racial categories continue to resonate in contemporary forms of racialization. I examine the use of metaphors of rootedness and shadows by a contemporary UK migrant advocacy organization and its allies to justify migrant regularization and manage illicit circulation. I argue that the distinction between rooted and rootless peoples draws on the colonial and racial distinctions between wandering and settled peoples. Contemporary notions of citizenship continue to draw upon and activate racial forms of differentiation. Citizenship is thus part of a form of racial governance that operates not only along biological but also social and cultural lines, infusing race into the structures, practices, and techniques of governance

Biopower · Citizenship · Colonialism · Corporate governance · Governmentality · Political science · Politics · Racial formation theory · Racialization · Racism · Sociology · Gender Studies · Homelessness and Social Issues · Law · Migration, Health and Trauma · Migration, Refugees, and Integration