Nation, ‘migration’ and critical practice

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ID8360978
AuthorsHarald Bauder (0000-0002-7249-8325)
Year2013
Volume45
Issue1
Pages56-62
Publication date2013-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueArea (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0004-0894 • E-ISSN: 1475-4762
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1475-4762.2012.01129.x
OpenAlexW2110083534
LanguageEN
Citations received15
References cited30

Scholarship on human mobility typically references ‘migration’ uncritically in the concept of the territorial nation‐state. This scholarly practice is problematic because it understates human mobility and ‘migrant’ identities at non‐national scales, reproduces the nation‐state as an ontological category vis‐à‐vis human mobility, and stifles the imagination of mobility in ways that are de‐linked from the territorial nation‐state. In this article, I build on the existing literature in geography and other disciplines to first elaborate on the link between ‘migration’ and the nation‐state in research on human mobility. Then, I destabilise this link by exploring the contradictions of the role of ‘migration’ in contemporary settler societies and ethnic nations, and by discussing the examples of N o B order politics and recent feminist writing on the global intimate. Finally, I illustrate how critical practice can engage in the formation of new subject identities and facilitate transformative action

Discipline · Epistemology · Ethnic group · Migration studies · Nation state · Political science · Politics · Scholarship · Social science · Sociology · State (computer science) · Subject (documents) · Transformative learning · Anthropology · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Gender Studies · Law · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Refugees, and Integration

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