Migration Identity and Belonging Defining Borders and Boundaries of the Homeland | Media & Cultural Studies

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This volume responds to the question: How do you know when you belong to a country? In other words when is the nation-state a homeland? The boundaries and borders defining who belongs and who does not proliferate in the age of globalization although they may not coincide with national jurisdictions. Contributors to this collection engage with how these boundaries are made and sustained examining how belonging is mediated by material relations of power capital and circuits of communication technology on the one side and representations of identity nation and homeland on the other. The authors’ diverse methodologies ranging from archival research oral histories literary criticism and ethnogra…