This introductory chapter outlines the volume’s main contents, identifying some key ideas that contribute to recent debates on migration, minorities and national categorization as well as the shifting meanings associated with the politics of kinship in this scenario. Specifically, we present and discuss two main fields of reflection: on one hand, the strain of national efforts to classify and govern internal differences and, on the other, dimensions of belonging on the basis of kinship, intimacy and ancestry. We conclude by introducing the individual chapters. Our aim is to sketch an intersectional perspective that grants equal attention to both the logics of national governmentality in the sphere of migration and minorities, and the myriad ways individuals and collectivities end up tangling with overwritten identity categories through practices and politics of identity and belonging, intimacy and relatedness. In this investigation, we focus our analysis on the boundary within understood as less an established line of demarcation or given classification and more an ongoing process of identity construction and social exclusion that takes place among the various actors, levels and spaces that make up the national fabric, itself shown to be intrinsically ambivalent, contradictory and subject to constant redefinition.

Nation, Migration and Kinship through Identity Categorization / Decimo, Francesca; Gribaldo, Alessandra. - STAMPA. - (2017), pp. 3-22. [10.1007/978-3-319-53331-5_1]

Nation, Migration and Kinship through Identity Categorization

Decimo, Francesca;Gribaldo, Alessandra
2017-01-01

Abstract

This introductory chapter outlines the volume’s main contents, identifying some key ideas that contribute to recent debates on migration, minorities and national categorization as well as the shifting meanings associated with the politics of kinship in this scenario. Specifically, we present and discuss two main fields of reflection: on one hand, the strain of national efforts to classify and govern internal differences and, on the other, dimensions of belonging on the basis of kinship, intimacy and ancestry. We conclude by introducing the individual chapters. Our aim is to sketch an intersectional perspective that grants equal attention to both the logics of national governmentality in the sphere of migration and minorities, and the myriad ways individuals and collectivities end up tangling with overwritten identity categories through practices and politics of identity and belonging, intimacy and relatedness. In this investigation, we focus our analysis on the boundary within understood as less an established line of demarcation or given classification and more an ongoing process of identity construction and social exclusion that takes place among the various actors, levels and spaces that make up the national fabric, itself shown to be intrinsically ambivalent, contradictory and subject to constant redefinition.
2017
Boundaries Within: Nation, Kinship and Identity among Migrants and Minorities
Cham Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London
Springer
978-3-319-53329-2
978-3-319-53331-5
Decimo, Francesca; Gribaldo, Alessandra
Nation, Migration and Kinship through Identity Categorization / Decimo, Francesca; Gribaldo, Alessandra. - STAMPA. - (2017), pp. 3-22. [10.1007/978-3-319-53331-5_1]
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