MC 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Racial Democracy, Metanarrative, Nationstates
13 Dec 2016
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Lecture- Redefining the Nation-State
➢ Readings
o Alba and Foner: grand theoretical narratives and cross national differences:
Britain, France, Germany, Netherlands, US and Canada
o Thielemann and Schade: immigration and UK: Myths
o Nobles: Latin America and brazil racial democracy
o Buruma: Islam, tolerance and refugees
➢ General conclusions
o The complexity of understanding and creating polices that deal with immigration
o The difficulties with collection reliable data and stats
o The common myth that the people shared about immigration
o Difficulties of integrating these populations and the different policies
o No inclusion model is perfect
o Immigration and inclusion are multiscale and multivariable issues that need to
considered aspects of the immigrants such as religion, education, origins, class,
ages
o Policies need to be more encompassing and considered tolerance education
asocial program economics
➢ Purpose
o Political belonging should be understood in the context of diverse spatial
imaginaries which encompass but are not confined to the state.
➢ Nation State, Migration, Globalization
o Citizenship- organized around a fixed relationship between the state, the
territory and the citizen
o Rights to citizenship- linked to belonging to a specific nation state
o Nationality- premised on rights and responsibilities to territorial denied states
▪ International migration: operate across states.
➢ Stretch our understanding and our boundaries
o The lies of ieasig ues of idiiduals a o loge e uderstood by
lookig oly at hat goes o ithi atioal oudaies
➢ Contemporary Migration Issues
o The rights of individuals as citizens in the nation-state
o Notions of belonging and identity.
o The influx and porosity of the Nation-State
➢ Defining the Nation-State
o idealized conceptual model:
o Nation: A nation is a large group of people with strong bonds of identity – an
imagined community, a tribe on a grand scale. The nation may have a claim to
statehood or self-rule, but it does not necessarily enjoy a state of its own.
National identity is typically based on shared culture, religion, history, language
or ethnicity, though disputes arise as to who is truly a member of the national
community
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Document Summary
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