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Immigration societies and the question of ‘the National'
journal contribution
posted on 2015-03-11, 14:50 authored by Marco AntonsichMarco Antonsich, Tatiana MatejskovaAs globalization has brought about a re-scaling of governance of political and economic life in the form of increased localization and trans-nationalization (Jessop, 1993; Brenner, 2004; Swyngedouw, 2004), migration scholarship has undergone a similar shift, privileging local/urban (Glick Schiller and Çağlar, 2010; Smith, 2000; Ellis, 2006) and trans-national (Levitt, 2001; Basch et al., 1994) scales as their major objects of inquiry. This shift has undoubtedly advanced our understanding of the complex spatiality of both immigrant experiences and contemporary migration management practices. Yet, in this rescaling, ‘the national’ has become, at best, a sort of afterthought or, more often, simply by-passed. One of the reasons behind this circumvention has been, especially in critical scholarship, the palpable uneasiness with the national as a politically desirable site of investigation. This, in turn, might have to do with an analytical conflation of the national with the concept of the nation-state, which at times has been associated with oppressive elements of both state power and difference-eradicating nationalism.
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- Social Sciences
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- Geography and Environment
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EthnicitiesCitation
ANTONSICH, M. and MATEJSKOVA, T., 2015. Immigration societies and the question of ‘the National'. Ethnicities, 15(4), pp.495-508.Publisher
Sage Publications / © The AuthorsVersion
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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Publication date
2015Notes
This paper was accepted for publication in the journal Ethnicities and the definitive published version is available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1468796815577705ISSN
1468-7968Publisher version
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