Migration, Colonialism, Globalization: Histories of the Free -Subject and the Sovereign Nation-State

"I draw two main conclusions from my investigation: First, that colonial migration helps produce and institutionalize the very categories---of free labor and nationality---that undergird bourgeois political economy and the nation-state, which we now not only privilege in studying migration, but which are among the salient categories that organize our social world. And, second, that the normative content of the technologies that govern migration are irreducibly raced and gendered. 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. In contrast, my research suggests that we must take account of the force exerted by the regulatory technologies of modern migration that help (re)generate, rather than undermine, the colonial conjuncture between racialized-nationality, gendered nationalism, the ""free"" subject of bourgeois political economy, and the colonial genealogy of the modern state."

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Speech Communication

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2015

Author dc:creator

• Mongia, Radhika Viyas

Contributors dc:contributor

• Grossberg, Lawrence

• Sociology, Social Structure and Development

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

(MiAaPQ)AAI9990087

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/87576