Immigration Policy and National Identity: Two Case Studies in Practice

2001 ◽  
pp. 104-141
Author(s):  
Peter C. Meilaender
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Immigration Policy

Running for Korea: Rethinking of sport migration and in/flexible citizenship

2018 ◽  
Vol 55 (3) ◽  
pp. 361-379 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yeomi Choi
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Immigration Policy ◽  
Decisive Role ◽  
Transnational Migration ◽  
Human Migration ◽  
Critical Race Studies ◽  
Controversial Issues ◽  
Skilled Workers ◽  
Territorial State ◽  
Racial Domination

Human migration is one of the defining features of a transnational age. Challenging the conventional knowledge that identity and citizenship are connected to one territorial state, both migrant and repositioned subjects create a new understanding of identity, belonging, and citizenship within multiple transnational connectivities. Sport particularly produces a new version of belonging referred to as flexible citizenship, including various kinds of skilled workers crossing national borders. In the process of migration, governments play a crucial and a decisive role by determining permission via specific legislation enactment; South Korea’s immigration policy, Special Naturalization, is a notable example. Despite the legally encouraged mobility that favors flexible citizenship by state power, this repositioning is regulated and limited by the intricate socio-political logics of race, class, and national identity. Focusing on the controversial issues of the Kenyan-born marathoner Wilson Loyanae Erupe and his bid for Korean citizenship, this study critically examines the tensions surrounding sport migration, flexible citizenship, race, and nationalism. Drawing on the theoretical ideas of critical race studies, specifically, it queries the conflicting encounters of transnational migration and being a Korean citizen to illuminate the structures of racial domination in Korea often seen as a racially and ethnically homogeneous society.

scholarly journals Ethnic Immigration Policy Implementation (1992- 2009)

2013 ◽  
pp. 109-117
Author(s):  
Shugatai Amangul
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Population Growth ◽  
Policy Implementation ◽  
Population Size ◽  
International Migration ◽  
Immigration Policy ◽  
International Affairs ◽  
Migration Process ◽  
Economic Stability ◽  
Positive Effect

After Kazakhstan declared its independence, it became a large perform­er in the worldwide international migration process. The attraction of social and economic stability (with an increase in the level of liv­ing standard), stable ethno-demographic and population growth, no nationalist struggles as well as positive geopolitical situations, have lead to a huge flow of immigrants to Kazakhstan in the years since independence. In this study, I have suggested that results of the ethnic immigration policy include strengthening the national identity, creating a positive effect on the ethno-demographic outcomes, and increasing the number of the population size over the last nineteen years. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5564/mjia.v0i17.87 Mongolian Journal of International Affairs, No.17 2012: 109-117

Immigration, Multiculturalism and National Identity in Canada

1997 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Population Growth ◽  
Immigration Policy ◽  
Racial Composition ◽  
National Unity ◽  
Canadian Immigration Policy ◽  
Historical Importance ◽  
Bilingual And Multicultural ◽  
Canadian Immigration

AbstractThis article describes historical circumstances and developments that contributed to the formation of Canadian national identity. Specifically, it focuses on the historical importance of immigration to population growth, the evolution of Canadian immigration policy from exclusionist to universalist, relations between anglophones and francophones, the advent of the multiculturalism policy, and how that policy has been both expanded and strengthened in reponse to the changing ethnic and racial composition of Canada's population. Despite pride in the country's support for tolerance and diversity, Canadians continue to be concerned about immigration and national identity. The challenge of promoting national unity in the context of remarkable diversity is faced by many countries, but it is especially daunting for the young, bilingual, and multicultural Canadian State.

scholarly journals National Identity Textbooks: Teaching Scottishness in the Wake of the Union of Parliaments

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Veronika Maricic
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
School System ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
School Governance ◽  
The State ◽  
Academic Interest ◽  
Modern Mass ◽  
Modern Era

Even though the interrelation of the emergence of modern mass school systems andprocesses of nation-building in the modern era has evoked academic interest, suchresearch endeavours are generally exemplified by case studies of established nationstates.Conversely, this article demonstrates the pertinence of widening the researchscope beyond the synthesis of the nation and the state, by focusing on the particularcase of Scotland as a nation without a state and the role schools played in creatingScottish national identity in the wake of the Union of Parliaments in 1707. Therebyfocus is put on textbooks as a materialisation of curricula and an extended armof school governance. The article concludes with insights that can be derived fromthis case study for the case of Scottish nationalism as well as its significance for thestudy of nationalism, education and their interrelation in general.Key words: loyal national citizens; nation-building; school system; Scotland.

The Micropolitics of Exchange

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kate Elswit
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
National Identity ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Forced Migration ◽  
Third Reich ◽  
Survival Strategies ◽  
Multiple Forms ◽  
Dance Studies ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Third Reich

Exile has received relatively little attention in dance studies, although forced migration in the mid-twentieth century reconfigured artistic and intellectual landscapes on multiple continents. This chapter turns to German dance during and after the Third Reich, while drawing on theoretical and historical treatments of exile developed in other disciplines, as well as constructions of national identity. Such perspectives on displacement suggest that it is not the place of exiled artists, which needs to be reassessed within national dance histories; rather, these artists offer an opportunity to assess the contours of the historical narrations themselves and, with them, other forms of belonging. The case studies of Valeska Gert and Kurt Jooss highlight the micropolitics of exile’s transnational exchange. These intricate, personalized crosscurrents were catalyzed by survival strategies that registered in the work itself and left traces in history, which can only be seen by engaging with multiple forms of otherness.

What Becomes a Nation?

Mulata Nation ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 31-67
Author(s):  
Alison Fraunhar
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Natural History ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Visual Imagery ◽  
Nationalist Sentiment ◽  
European Immigration ◽  
Symbolic Products

Using marquillas cigarreras, the small printed papers in which bundles of cigarettes were sold, as case studies, this chapter analyzes the development of nationalist sentiment and the iconography of national identity through the visual imagery of commodities. Marquillas cigarreras featured a virtually encyclopedic array of imagery: from natural history, architectural monuments, almanacs, serials, military uniforms and insignia, some of the most memorable marquilla series depicted costumbristic scenes of Cuban life and types, including mulatas, blacks, proverbs, literary figures and social satire. The chapter discusses the significance of cardinal Cuban products—tobacco and sugar—in the context of economic, cultural and ideological conditions, and analyzes the ways they are presented and consumed through commodity consumption. These products were crucial to the economy and the symbolic products linked to national identity, as evident on marquillas. Furthermore, their production is inextricably linked to the colonial system, including African slavery, European mercantilism and European immigration.

We Move Therefore We Are

2020 ◽  
pp. 109-128
Author(s):  
Sabina Lawreniuk ◽  
Laurie Parsons
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
International Migration ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
Political Opposition ◽  
National Narratives ◽  
People's Party ◽  
Union Movement ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Migration Systems

Chapter 7 explores how translocal livelihoods have contributed to a rise in nationalistic discourse, national communitarian ideology and the ethnically mediated ‘othering’ of certain groups. The chapter begins by exploring the linkages between the domestic garment industry, the union movement and political opposition to the incumbent Cambodia People’s Party, before extending the analysis to explore these themes in relation to Cambodia’s two major international migration systems: those with Thailand and Vietnam. The first of these examines issues of national identity amongst translocal migrants to Thailand in order to interpret the impact of international household and community economies on political conceptions of the state. The second examines the perspectives of translocal migrants between Cambodia and Vietnam, in the context of Cambodia’s recent upsurge in anti-Vietnamese popular sentiment and political discourse. Chapter 7 concludes by drawing together the lessons of these case studies to consider both how mass translocal livelihoods have shaped national discourse and how national narratives of nationhood have contributed to structuring Cambodia’s international diaspora.

Conclusion

2020 ◽  
pp. 156-174
Author(s):  
Alexander Bukh
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Social Construction ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Territorial Disputes ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Difference

This chapter summarizes the findings of this book. It draws a number of conclusions regarding the factors that spur the emergence of territorial disputes—related national identity entrepreneurship, and analyzes the factors that account for the difference in the social reception of the narratives in the respective societies. It also outlines the implications of these case studies for our understanding of the social construction of a disputed territory and for the broader constructivist International Relations literature on national identity.

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