Amighetti, Sara and Nuti, Alasia orcid.org/0000-0002-9878-2615 (2016) A Nation's Right to Exclude and the Colonies. Political Theory. pp. 541-566. ISSN 0090-5917
Abstract
This essay contends that postcolonial migrants have a right to enter their former colonizing nations, and that these should accept them. Our novel argument challenges well-established justifications for restrictions in immigration-policies advanced in liberal nationalism, which links immigration controls to the nation’s self-determination and the legitimate preservation of national identity. To do so, we draw on postcolonial analyses of colonialism, in particular on Edward Said’s notion of “intertwined histories,” and we offer a more sophisticated account of national identity than that of liberal nationalists. In our view, the national identity of former colonizing nations cannot be understood in isolation from their ex-colonies. This entails that liberal nationalists cannot justify the restriction on the entrance of members of the nation’s former colonies by resorting to an argument about the preservation of national identity: the former colonized constitute an inseparable element of that national identity, because they are already historically part of it.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © Authors 2016. This is an author-produced version of the published paper. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher’s self-archiving policy. Further copying may not be permitted; contact the publisher for detail |
Keywords: | Liberal nationalism,colonialism,intertwined histories,postcolonial immigration,right to exclude |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Social Sciences (York) > Politics (York) |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 07 Mar 2016 11:23 |
Last Modified: | 21 Nov 2024 00:32 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1177/0090591715589764 |
Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1177/0090591715589764 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:95734 |