scholarly journals The museum and the border: the Merseyside Maritime Museum and the construction of the migrant and refugee

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Neylon
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Immigration Law ◽  
Colonial History ◽  
Maritime Museum

  This article examines how the state imagines and represents migration. Using the Merseyside Maritime Museum as a frame, it provides key insights into how perspectives of time and particular constructions of colonial history have contributed to a system of immigration law that is characterised by a policy of institutional forgetting.

How Finance Colonised Aotearoa: A Concise Counter-History

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 41
Author(s):  
Catherine Cumming
Keyword(s):  
Financial Institutions ◽  
The State ◽  
Colonial History ◽  
Financial Instruments ◽  
Financial History ◽  
Early Colonial ◽  
History Of

This paper intervenes in orthodox under-standings of Aotearoa New Zealand’s colonial history to elucidate another history that is not widely recognised. This is a financial history of colonisation which, while implicit in existing accounts, is peripheral and often incidental to the central narrative. Undertaking to reread Aotearoa New Zealand’s early colonial history from 1839 to 1850, this paper seeks to render finance, financial instruments, and financial institutions explicit in their capacity as central agents of colonisation. In doing so, it offers a response to the relative inattention paid to finance as compared with the state in material practices of colonisation. The counter-history that this paper begins to elicit contains important lessons for counter-futures. For, beyond its implications for knowledge, the persistent and violent role of finance in the colonisation of Aotearoa has concrete implications for decolonial and anti-capitalist politics today.  

Including chiefs, maintaining peace? Examining the effects of state–traditional governance interaction on civil peace in sub-Saharan Africa

2018 ◽  
Vol 56 (2) ◽  
pp. 203-219 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katariina Mustasilta
Keyword(s):  
Armed Conflict ◽  
The State ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Added Value ◽  
Colonial History ◽  
The Public ◽  
History Of ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
Traditional Authorities ◽  
Traditional Governance

The continued influence of traditional governance in sub-Saharan Africa has sparked increasing attention among scholars exploring the role of non-state and quasi-state forms of governance in the modern state. However, little attention has been given to cross-country and over-time variation in the interaction between state and traditional governance structures, particularly in regard to its implications for intrastate peace. This study examines the conditions under which traditional governance contributes to state capacity to maintain peace. The article argues that the type of institutional interaction between the state and traditional authority structures influences a country’s overall governance dynamics and its capacity to maintain peace. By combining new data on state–traditional authorities’ interaction in sub-Saharan Africa from 1989 to 2012 with intrastate armed conflict data, I conduct a systematic comparative analysis of whether concordant state–traditional authorities’ interaction strengthens peace. The empirical results support the argument that integrating traditional authorities into the public administration lowers the risk of armed conflict in comparison to when they remain unrecognized by the state. Moreover, the analysis suggests that the added value of this type of interaction is conditional on the colonial history of a country.

scholarly journals 1719 William Trent House Museum—The Significance of New Jersey’s Colonial History

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 184
Author(s):  
Samantha Luft
Keyword(s):  
New Jersey ◽  
The State ◽  
Colonial History ◽  
Curriculum Standards ◽  
Delaware River ◽  
House Museum ◽  
Historic Landmark ◽  
State Capital ◽  
The City

<p><em>Have your students ever asked who the state capital of Trenton is named for? That man, William Trent, built his country estate north of Philadelphia, in New Jersey, at the Falls of the Delaware River about 1719. It was a large, imposing brick structure, built in the newest fashion of the day. Nearby, there were numerous outbuildings as well as grist, saw, and fulling mills along the Assunpink Creek. In 1720 Trent laid out a settlement, which he incorporated and named “Trenton.” After changing hands numerous times, the Trent House opened as a museum in 1939. Today it is owned by the City of Trenton and operated by the Trent House Association. The William Trent House is a designated National Historic Landmark and is listed in both the State and National Registers of Historic Places. Bring your classes to learn about colonial life, and challenge them to compare it to life as they know it today. This article includes references to the relevant New Jersey Curriculum Standards.</em></p>

scholarly journals Política dos diamantes em Angola durante a primeira era colonial: as relações entre o estado e a Diamang 1917-1961

Afro-Ásia ◽  
2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mathias Alencastro
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Constitutive Relationship ◽  
Colonial History ◽  
Colonial State ◽  
Early Colonial ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Influential Individuals ◽  
State Functions

<p class="abstract">Este artigo tem como objetivo examinar as origens e a evolução do setor dos diamantes em Angola. Ele começa em 1921 com a criação da companhia Diamantes de Angola (Diamang) e termina em 1961 com o início da luta anticolonial. Ao longo desse período, o Estado colonial e o setor dos diamantes desenvolveram uma relação simbiótica: o Estado atribuía os poderes necessários para a Diamang estabelecer um “estado dentro do estado” e, assim, consolidar a presença territorial das autoridades portugueses. Para explicar a emergência e a consolidação dessa relação, o artigo explora as razões pelas quais o Estado colonial cedeu poderes à Diamang, sublinhando sua fraca capacidade institucional para projetar autoridade no interior da colônia de Angola. Em seguida, o artigo mostra como a Diamang passou a ter um papel essencial nos debates sobre política administrativa e fiscal na colônia e na metrópole.</p><p class="abstract"><strong>Palavras-chave</strong>: Lunda - setor dos diamantes - história colonial - Angola.</p><p class="abstract"><strong><em>Abstract</em></strong></p><p class="abstract"><em>This article examines the origins and evolution of the diamond sector in Angola. It begins in 1921 with the creation of DIAMANG and ends in 1961 with the outbreak of the liberation war. It argues that throughout this period (and beyond) the colonial state and the diamond sector shared a complex but ultimately co-constitutive relationship: the state granted DIAMANG the necessary powers, while DIAMANG built a ‘state inside the state’ on the former’s behalf. To explain the emergence – and the persistence – of this relationship, the chapter explores the reasons why the colonial state empowered DIAMANG to perform state functions in Lunda in the first place, highlighting the institutional incapacity of the early colonial state to broadcast its power directly in the hinterland. It then shows how DIAMANG furthered the financial and other interests of Portuguese colonial officials and other influential individuals in the colony as well as in the metropolis, and vice-versa. </em></p><p class="abstract"><strong>Keywords</strong>: <em>Lunda - diamond sector - colonial history - Angola</em></p>

1. What is Public Law?

2021 ◽  
pp. 3-16
Author(s):  
Lisa Webley ◽  
Harriet Samuels
Keyword(s):  
Separation Of Powers ◽  
Public Law ◽  
The State ◽  
Immigration Law ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Responsible Government ◽  
Executive Action ◽  
Complete Series ◽  
Explanatory Text ◽  
Primary Materials

Titles in the Complete series combine extracts from a wide range of primary materials with clear explanatory text to provide readers with a complete introductory resource. This chapter provides an introduction to public law. Public law regulates the relationships between individuals (and organisations) with the state and its organs. Examples include criminal and immigration law and human rights-related issues. Public law is made up of a number of key principles designed to ensure a healthy, representative, law-abiding country that strikes a balance between the needs of the state and the needs of its citizens. Each of these principles is discussed in turn: the rule of law, separation of powers, representative democracy, supremacy of Parliament, limited and responsible government, and judicial review executive action by the courts.

Indigenous Self-Government Structures in Canada, Greenland, and Sápmi

2019 ◽  
pp. 60-96
Author(s):  
Rauna Kuokkanen
Keyword(s):  
Political Context ◽  
The State ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
First Nation ◽  
Colonial History ◽  
Government Governance

Chapter 2 begins with a discussion of the related (but distinct) concepts of self-government, governance, and autonomy and how they differ from the concept of self-determination. It then examines in detail the scope and structures of the existing self-government arrangements in three regions: Canada, Greenland, and Sápmi (the Sámi region in Scandinavia) through participant discussions. In Canada, the focus is not on a specific First Nation or self-government arrangement; instead, Indigenous self-government is approached in broader terms with the focus on the discrepancy between aspiration of Indigenous nationhood and sovereignty and the structure and scope of self-government sanctioned by the state. Each section begins with a brief overview of the colonial history and political context leading to self-government arrangements.

scholarly journals Why Does the State Have the Right to Control Immigration?

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Song
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Political Theory ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Public Debate ◽  
The State ◽  
Immigration Law ◽  
Freedom Of Association ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Right ◽  
Normative Justification

Public debate about immigration proceeds on the assumption that each country has the right to control its own borders. But what, if anything, justifies the modern state’s power over borders? This chapter provides an answer in three parts. First, it examines the earliest immigration law cases in U.S. history and finds that the leading theorist they rely upon falls short of providing adequate normative justification of the state’s right to control immigration. In the second part, it turns to contemporary political theory and philosophy, critically assessing three leading arguments for the state’s right to control immigration: (1) national identity, (2) freedom of association, and (3) ownership/property. The third and final section offers an alternative argument based on the requirements of democracy.

scholarly journals The Predatory State and Radical Politics: The Case of the Philippines

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Ryan Baquero Maboloc
Keyword(s):  
The Philippines ◽  
The State ◽  
Radical Politics ◽  
Colonial History ◽  
The Troubles ◽  
Structural Nature ◽  
Vested Interests ◽  
Radical Approach

This paper examines why the radical approach to politics of President Rodrigo Duterte, halfway into his term, has not overcome the predatory nature of the Philippine state. The predatory nature of the state implies that politics in the country is still defined by vested interests. The struggle of the Filipino is largely due to the structural nature of the injustices suffered by the country. Duterte’s brand of politics is antagonistic. The president is a polarizing figure. Despite the declaration that he will punish corrupt officials, traditional politicians and elite clans continue to rule the land with impunity. The country’s political ills are actually systemic. Elitism is rooted in colonial history that is perpetuated by an inept bureaucracy. It will be argued that the strong resolve and charisma of a leader is inadequate to remedy the troubles in fledgling democracies such as the Philippines.

INTRODUCTION OF BIOMETRIC DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM IN THE STATE BORDER GUARD

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (7) ◽  
pp. 128
Author(s):  
Inta Siliniece ◽  
Jolanta Gaigalniece–Zelenova
Keyword(s):  
Data Processing ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Processing System ◽  
The State ◽  
Immigration Law ◽  
Data Input ◽  
Data Processing System ◽  
Biometric Data ◽  
Data Authentication ◽  
Technological Platform

Biometric data authentication systems are used widely nowadays. Biometric technologies are based on person's biometric data, compared with data of a specific person. In 2017, a new functionality was introduced at the State Border Guard on the technological platform of the Biometric Data Processing System for data input on foreigners detained under the Immigration Law. The fingerprint information system of asylum seekers was modernised. New workstations were installed in several State Border Guard units.

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