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I argue that since these technologies operate today, often in largely unchanged form, they help secure the continuing resilience of the colonial conjuncture between discourses of race, gender, and nationality. Current discussions of migration, diaspora, and national identity often concentrate on the malleability and hybridity of the cultural dimensions of identity. 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