Improvised Transnationalism: Clandestine Migration at the Border of Anthropology and International Relations
Improvised Transnationalism: Clandestine Migration at the Border of Anthropology and International Relations
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DOI：
10.1093/isq/sqw010
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发表时间：
2016-06-01
影响因子：
2.6
通讯作者：
Brigden, Noelle K.
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作者：
Brigden, Noelle K.
为了不被国家当局和犯罪掠夺者发现，中美洲人在前往美国的途中会冒充墨西哥人。这种“传递”强调了社会角色的模糊性，比如国籍。随着时间的推移，这些表演部分地重建了想象中的社区，模糊了外国人和公民之间的界限。然而，国际关系学术往往忽视了不协调的日常实践如何使全球化世界中的边界复杂化。通过追踪移民政策、国家表现和跨国路线之间的共同构成关系，本文揭示了强调公民和外国人之间区别的身份的临时性质。我主张继续纳入民族志作为探索领土，国家和民族之间的动态关系的方法。移民使边界复杂化，但也遭受国家和非国家暴力的真实的物质后果。因此，我对秘密跨国主义的分析记录了对主权的挑战和主权的重新配置。
To travel undetected by state authorities and criminal predators, Central Americans pass as Mexican during their journey to the United States. This 'passing' underscores the ambiguities of social roles, such as nationality. Over time, these performances partially reconstruct imagined communities, blurring the boundaries between foreigners and citizens. However, international-relations scholarship tends to overlook how uncoordinated everyday practice complicates borders in a globalized world. By tracing the co-constitutive relationship between migration policing, national performances, and transnational routes, this article reveals the makeshift nature of the identities that underscore distinctions between citizens and foreigners. I argue for the continued inclusion of ethnography as a method for exploring the dynamic relationship between territory, state, and nation. Migrants complicate borders, but also suffer the very real, material consequences of both state and nonstate violence. My analysis of clandestine transnationalism therefore chronicles challenges to, and reconfigurations of, sovereignty.