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1997

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Full-Text Articles in Human Rights Law

Human Rights Of Indigenous Peoples: Will The United States Rise To The Occasion?, Dean B. Suagee Jan 1997

Human Rights Of Indigenous Peoples: Will The United States Rise To The Occasion?, Dean B. Suagee

American Indian Law Review

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Migration, Identity & The Colonial Encounter, Tayyab Mahmud Jan 1997

Migration, Identity & The Colonial Encounter, Tayyab Mahmud

Faculty Articles

The immigrant puts at issue assumptions of inviolability of borders, territoriality of sovereignty, and exclusivity of citizenship - fundamental characteristics of the modern state. The immigrant calls into question cultural homogeneity, linguistic commonality, shared history, and security of identity - the key ideologies of the nation. This article explores these issues by locating them in spatial and temporal sites removed from the common foci of current immigration debates. Using three stories of migration from colonial and postcolonial South Asia, the first part of the article demonstrates that within the general context of empire and imperialism, the determinants and processes of …