Nationalism and populist politics
The migrant-citizen conundrum in Assam
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7724879 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Manish K Jha (0000-0001-7338-2124, School of Social Work, Centre for Community Organisation & Development Practice, School of Social Work, Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai, India), Anindita Chakrabarty (0000-0003-1095-867X, School of Law, Mahindra University, Hyderabad, India, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 514-529 |
| Publication date | 2023-05-19 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Citizenship Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1362-1025 • E-ISSN: 1469-3593 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13621025.2023.2178637 |
| OpenAlex | W4321093556 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 17 |
The article explores the far-reaching repercussions of British colonialism in producing hierarchical identities around religion, identity, and ethnicity in the northeastern state of Assam in India. The trajectory of people’s mobility across the border, due to political and economic reasons, has led to contention around legality, demography, and electoral outcomes. The article elucidates how nationalism, populism and the politics of insecurity have been played out whereby perceived collective threats are framed and acted upon. Traversing from past to present and apprehending the lurking dystopia, the article explains how the populist politics of othering residents in the borderland state of Assam has initiated various statist initiatives to differentiate natives from migrants, and citizens from residents. It grapples with the shifting meaning of a ‘native’ that qualifies or disqualifies populations from their citizenship, and examines how populist governance uses a migrant figure to seek legitimacy of its exclusionary citizenship policies and practices. It explores the dialogic functioning of a Hindu nationalist governance at the centre and an ethno-nationalist governance in Assam in a right-wing populist milieu. In the context in which migration is framed as a threat to the people, the article engages with the politics of insecurity, anxiety, and grievance
Citizenship · Corporate governance · Legitimacy · Nationalism · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Populism · Sociology · Xenophobia · Gender Studies · Law · Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East · South Asian Studies and Conflicts · South Asian Studies and Diaspora
Social disintegration and ethnic conflict
Ethnic Transactionalism and Limits of Religious Polarization
Rise of Populism in Northeast India
The production of a ‘digital citizen’
Document' and North-Indian Labour Migrants
Structural Intersections, Hierarchical Citizenship and Criminalization of the Migrant in Assam
Legal identity at the margins
The Effects of Three Facets of National Identity and Other Socioeconomic Traits on Attitudes Towards Immigrants
In the Name of the Nation
The Politics of Fear
Citizenship and Its Discontents
Fear of Small Numbers
Mapping Citizenship in India
Introduction
Other Side of Silence
Prejudice as a Response to Perceived Group Threat
An analysis of public opinion toward undocumented immigration
India Against Itself
Refugees or infiltrators? The Bharatiya Janata Party and “illegal” migration from Bangladesh
The immigration issue in Assam and conflicts around it
Memories of the Massacre
Datafication and data fiction
Fear of small numbers? Immigrant population size and electoral support for the populist radical right in Switzerland
Stateless in South Asia
| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,67 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |