The making and un-making of migrants and citizens:
re-thinking the study of human movement
Keywords:
migrante, cidadão, nacionalismo metodológico, racismo, mobilidadeAbstract
The study of mobilities and human mobilities draws attention to the problem of methodological nationalism and is a field, which demands new approaches. While states produce many categories to group and govern people, some categories are necessary for the nation state form itself, and ‘migrant’ is one such population. In the context where our subjectivities are shaped by national/migrant dichotomies the paper asks how we research migration without reinforcing the migrant as a problematic subject and recognise the key role played by the nation state without falling prey to methodological nationalism. It argues for denaturalising the categories of both migrant and citizen. It suggests we attend more carefully to the exclusions within citizenship through attention to race, and to the ways that some states exercise control over the movement of citizens via the welfare state. Both of these can help draw out connections between migrants and (formal) citizens.
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