Contested categories in the context of international migration: introduction to the special issue
Ethnic and Racial Studies,
Год журнала:
2024,
Номер
48(4), С. 695 - 717
Опубликована: Окт. 9, 2024
In
this
introduction
to
the
special
issue
Contested
Categories
in
Context
of
International
Migration,
we
argue
for
importance
critically
engaging
with
state-created
categories
and
classification
systems.
We
advocate
doing
so
particularly
convoluted
context
international
migration,
where
states
use
manage
migrants'
entry,
reception,
residence,
making
categorisation
extremely
consequential
individual
migrants,
even
though
bureaucratic
documentation
everyday
understandings
often
differ
greatly
between
home
countries
receiving
states.
outline
some
scholarship
on
that
has
inspired
our
thinking,
discuss
why
migration
is
such
an
important
generative
site
examining
processes
categorisation,
finally
consider
how
contributions
attest
this.
Язык: Английский
Who is a minor? Age assessments of refugees in Germany and the classificatory multiplicity of the state
Ethnic and Racial Studies,
Год журнала:
2024,
Номер
48(4), С. 740 - 762
Опубликована: Сен. 25, 2024
Язык: Английский
Categories as learning practice: navigating contested belonging along transatlantic mobile trajectories
Ethnic and Racial Studies,
Год журнала:
2024,
Номер
48(4), С. 812 - 835
Опубликована: Сен. 23, 2024
Язык: Английский
Who counts as a stateless person? Nation-statist logics and the liabilities of potential citizenship elsewhere
Ethnic and Racial Studies,
Год журнала:
2024,
Номер
48(4), С. 883 - 905
Опубликована: Окт. 16, 2024
This
article
examines
how
the
definition
of
statelessness
is
contested
below
formal
letter
law
in
Malaysia.
Analysing
court
cases,
interviews
with
lawyers,
and
public
discourse,
I
encounter
a
paradox:
that
stateless
people
Malaysia
are
produced
through
juridical,
bureaucratic,
discursive
repudiations
their
claims
to
statelessness.
Adhering
"nation-statist
logics,"
Malaysian
state
actors
commonly
reject
citizenship
claimants'
assertions
being
by
classifying
them
instead
as
foreigners,
thus
shunting
responsibility
for
inclusion
elsewhere
beyond
borders.
These
practices
disproportionately
burden
minorities
racialized,
migrant
backgrounds
presumptions
having
"potential
citizenship"
elsewhere,
even
if
such
links
tenuous
or
merely
theoretical.
By
centering
articulate
belonging
face
abject
exclusion,
categories
citizen
flexibly
mobilized
legal,
political,
social
spheres,
this
offers
new
avenues
critiquing
normativity
contemporary
nation-state
system.
Язык: Английский
Category traversing: early Korean immigrants eluding the U.S. state
Ethnic and Racial Studies,
Год журнала:
2024,
Номер
48(4), С. 789 - 811
Опубликована: Окт. 15, 2024
This
paper
explores
category
traversing,
the
process
through
which
migrants
navigate
state-imposed
immigration
categories.
In
early
twentieth
century,
Asian
were
categorically
excluded
from
entering
U.S.
under
Asiatic
Barred
Zone,
while
exemptions
granted
to
merchants,
diplomats
and
students.
Drawing
on
immigrant
case
files
National
Archives,
we
highlight
how
Korean
student
status
circumvent
race-based
exclusion.
At
ports
of
entry,
they
curated
a
performance
present
as
in
eyes
officials,
with
proper
display
scholarly
knowledge
financial
ability.
Even
after
failure
maintain
invited
scrutiny
officials.
Responding
these
demands,
agentially
traversed
categories
worker
remain
country
that
sought
exclude
them.
contributes
this
special
issue
by
documenting
(a)
perform
accordance
regimes
(b)
challenge
those
traversing
them
see
fit.
Язык: Английский
Immigration bureaucracies and state-created categories across the globe
Ethnic and Racial Studies,
Год журнала:
2024,
Номер
48(4), С. 927 - 947
Опубликована: Окт. 9, 2024
In
this
Afterword
I
engage
with
each
article
in
special
issue
by
highlighting
some
of
their
main
points
and
placing
them
conversation
scholarship
my
substantive
interests.
doing
so,
signal
the
expansive
potential
contribution
as
see
it
from
scholarly
corner.
elucidate
generative
collection
underscore
fruitfulness
adopting
critical
lens
to
state-created
categorization
that
threads
articles
for
field
immigration
studies
general.
Язык: Английский