"final" version of my paper.

[resist_anywhere]

Human Rights and Refugees
19 April 2007

Moving On: Nationalism and Beyond in Terms of Migration

In Liisa Malkki's article “National Geographic,” Malkki discusses nationalism and territoriality, and the ways in which the concepts exert their influence in discussions of ethics and morality. For example, cultures and people are assumed to be

Comments

[anonymous]

I saw your paper from the anarchist community, and while I am not an anarchist, I believe you've raised many good points relating nationalism (latent and blantent) and nationalist policies to control over migration, etc.

if you want to make the paper more theoretically or even philosophical (which may not be your bag), take a look into Foucauldian analyses of nationalism. I don't have any specific citations, but I know there is a pretty large literature on the subject.

Another area of interest may be the European Union and the Schengen agreement and its effects on refugee status, refugee populations and so forth. Highlight the hypocrisy of free movement of (certain) peoples and the like.

I don't know if this has been helpful, but my main area of study is European nationalism (in consolidated and consolidating democracies as defined by Dahl) contrasted with the idea of greater suprastate structures such as the EU, ultimately trying to see if the EU's effect on nationalism has been that of erosion, cementing or simply changing the discourse (i'd lean towards the latter). I'm rambling, but I hope those two suggestions from some rando internet dude help or at least provide more ground for research.

[resist_anywhere]

Excellent suggestions. I didn't have the time to delve into Foucauld nearly as much as I would have liked, and it hadn't occurred to me to highlight the hypocrisies in the EU that you mentioned. I really appreciate the feedback, thanks.