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Culture as politics in contemporary migration contexts: the in/visibilization of power relations.
- Source :
- Ethnic & Racial Studies; Feb2023, Vol. 46 Issue 3, p420-449, 30p
- Publication Year :
- 2023
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Abstract
- In the 1990s, an essentialist, bounded understanding of culture delimiting (ethno-national) groups based on allegedly discrete sets of natural characteristics came to structure politics in North Atlantic migration contexts, justifying migrant exclusion or celebrating inclusion. Yet, how this idea of "culture-as-defining-attribute" works among people situated in everyday life remains understudied. We develop an analytical framework centred on discursive repertoires, sources of relational meaning-production, anchored in historical contexts, and embedded in power. Analyzing 125 essays written by Toronto and Neuchâtel undergraduate students, we demonstrate that using culture-as-defining-attribute results in an in/visibilization of power relations. Toronto students hypervisibilize a positively inflected conviviality across multicultural diversity, while invisibilizing racism and settler colonialism. Neuchâtel students visibilize the production of migranticized others, invisibilizing nativism and non-migrant/white structural privileges. We end with a plea for context-specific analysis of culture-as-defining-attribute and a deeper understanding of in/visibilization as a significant "missing link" in current analyses of culture and ex/inclusion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- EMIGRATION & immigration
CULTURE
POWER (Social sciences)
RACISM
IMPERIALISM
NATIVISM
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 01419870
- Volume :
- 46
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Ethnic & Racial Studies
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 161179471
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2022.2121171