Special issue articles
Towards a (re)imagined posture on (im)migration
The hegemonic production of knowledge on (im)migration from the geopolitical and epistemic location of the United
States has made legible and knowable a particular conception of (im)migration shaping in turn how (im)migrant subjects are made
and remade. As a corpus these dominant conceptions of (im)migration are legible through a dominant discourse that has, in the
particular case of the U.S., contributed to a racialized (im)migrant personhood and to the study of outsiders coming in to
settle. In a two-pronged approach the piece (a) shows the settler colonial logics embedded in (im)migration discourse
while (b) simultaneously enacting work of (re)imagining by putting in conversation the work on discourse and racialization within
the contexts of (im)migration with Indigenous scholars’ work on borders, settlement, and sovereignty. As such the goals are to
disrupt the naturalized ways whereby the racialized (im)migrant and (im)migration are conceptualized within the U.S. context and
to offer an aperture for a (re)imagined posture on (im)migration. These initial and fragmentary dialogic exchanges offer a
potential path towards a (re)imagined posture on (im)migration that does not reproduce settler colonial logics while sustaining
the coexistence of antagonisms and tensions in our quotidian interactions needed to live with the discomfort of
contradictions.
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Towards a (re)imagined posture on (im)migration
- 2.1Unmarked whiteness, racialized transgression & settler colonial relations
- 3.Concluding thoughts
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
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