Borders, Migrants, and Writing

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2020

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Nail, Thomas

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University of Oregon

Abstract

We tend to think of migrants as moving between states and borders as fortifications of states. I would like to prove the reverse: that migrants produce and reproduce the state in the first place. I think we have got this story backward, and I think a very different politics would arise by getting this the right way round. I would like to try and rethink political philosophy starting from the figure of the migrant.

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22 pages

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human mobility, philosophy of movement, kinetics

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Nail, T. (2020). Borders, Migrants, and Writing. Konturen, 11, 152–173. https://doi.org/10.5399/uo/konturen.11.0.4831

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https://hdl.handle.net/1794/28568

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Konturen: Vol 11 (2020)