TY - JOUR
T1 - Home rule: national sovereignty and the separation of natives and migrants
T2 - by Nandita Sharma, Durham, Duke University Press, 2020, 1 + 283 pp., £22.99, ISBN 9781478000778 (hbk); 9781478000952 (pbk)
AU - Miller, Zoe
PY - 2020/10/8
Y1 - 2020/10/8
N2 - In Home Rule Nandita Sharma traces the historical formation and political separation of Natives and Migrants from the nineteenth century to the present to theorize the portrayal of Migrants as "colonial invaders." The imperial-state category of Native, initially a mark of colonized status, has been revitalized in what Sharma terms the Postcolonial New World Order of nation-states. Under postcolonial rule, claims to autochthony—being the Native "people of a place"—are mobilized to define true national belonging. Consequently, Migrants—the quintessential "people out of place"—increasingly face exclusion, expulsion, or even extermination. This turn to autochthony has led to a hardening of nationalism(s). Criteria for political membership have shrunk, immigration controls have intensified, all while practices of expropriation and exploitation have expanded. Such politics exemplify the postcolonial politics of national sovereignty, a politics that Sharma sees as containing our dreams of decolonization. Home Rule rejects nationalisms and calls for the dissolution of the ruling categories of Native and Migrant so we can build a common, worldly place where our fundamental liberty to stay and move is realized.
AB - In Home Rule Nandita Sharma traces the historical formation and political separation of Natives and Migrants from the nineteenth century to the present to theorize the portrayal of Migrants as "colonial invaders." The imperial-state category of Native, initially a mark of colonized status, has been revitalized in what Sharma terms the Postcolonial New World Order of nation-states. Under postcolonial rule, claims to autochthony—being the Native "people of a place"—are mobilized to define true national belonging. Consequently, Migrants—the quintessential "people out of place"—increasingly face exclusion, expulsion, or even extermination. This turn to autochthony has led to a hardening of nationalism(s). Criteria for political membership have shrunk, immigration controls have intensified, all while practices of expropriation and exploitation have expanded. Such politics exemplify the postcolonial politics of national sovereignty, a politics that Sharma sees as containing our dreams of decolonization. Home Rule rejects nationalisms and calls for the dissolution of the ruling categories of Native and Migrant so we can build a common, worldly place where our fundamental liberty to stay and move is realized.
KW - migration
KW - postcolonialism
KW - colonialism
UR - https://pureprojects.ppad.man.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/home-rule-national-sovereignty-and-the-separation-of-natives-and-migrants(e688a2bd-2689-4c1e-af32-0ead4d40652b).html
U2 - 10.1080/13507486.2020.1820695
DO - 10.1080/13507486.2020.1820695
M3 - Book/Film/Article review
VL - 28
SP - 464
EP - 466
JO - European Review of HIstory
JF - European Review of HIstory
SN - 1350-7486
IS - 3
ER -