The ‘native’s point of view’ in the anthropology of migration

Nicholas De Genova

doi:10.1177/1463499616652513

The ‘native’s point of view’ in the anthropology of migration

Nicholas De Genova^*

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Abstract

Under contemporary conditions of "globalization, " any anthropology of migration must confront the seeming paradox that our "globalized" era is profoundly marked by a proliferation of new (historically-specific) formations of the cultural politics of nativism (or what may be otherwise depicted in terms of "autocthony," or "xenophobia"). Notably, during this same period, we have likewise witnessed the ascendancy of a reanimated anthropological dogma of cultural essentialism, in the guise of (pseudo-) "ontological" notions of irreducible and essentially incommensurable "difference." This article examines the implications for an anthropology of migration that contemplates seriously the implications of the affinities between the sort of disciplinary nativism that derives from the pluralist commitments of cultural essentialism with the anti-immigrant politics of nativism that has become a defining and increasingly pervasive feature of our global political present.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	227-240
Number of pages	14
Journal	Anthropological Theory
Volume	16
Issue number	2-3
Early online date	15 Sept 2016
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/1463499616652513
Publication status	Published - Sept 2016

Keywords

autochthony
citizenship
identity politics
nationalism
Nativism
pluralism
xenophobia

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