‘Wandering and settled tribes’: Biopolitics, citizenship, and the racialized migrant

Topinka, Robert (2016) ‘Wandering and settled tribes’: Biopolitics, citizenship, and the racialized migrant. Citizenship Studies, 20 (3-4). pp. 444-456. ISSN 1362-1025

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Abstract

This paper argues that purportedly outdated racial categories continue to resonate in contemporary forms of racialization. I examine the use of metaphors of rootedness and shadows by a contemporary UK migrant advocacy organization and its allies to justify migrant regularization and manage illicit circulation. I argue that the distinction between rooted and rootless peoples draws on the colonial and racial distinctions between wandering and settled peoples. Contemporary notions of citizenship continue to draw upon and activate racial forms of differentiation. Citizenship is thus part of a form of racial governance that operates not only along biological but also social and cultural lines, infusing race into the structures, practices, and techniques of governance.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	bio-politics,citizen,mobility,race,non-citizen,globalization
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Politics, Philosophy, Language and Communication Studies
Depositing User:	Pure Connector
Date Deposited:	06 Dec 2015 02:08
Last Modified:	22 Oct 2022 00:23
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/55657
DOI:	10.1080/13621025.2015.1107026

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