Displacement, integration and identity in the postcolonial world
Displacement, integration and identity in the postcolonial world
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后殖民世界中的流离失所、融合和身份
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2016
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V. Redclift
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界定流离失所人口与民族国家之间的关系是一个充满挑战的历史过程。1947年的印度分治就是一个令人信服的例子，但人们对由此产生的难民社区却关注甚少。使用流离失所的“乌尔都语少数民族”在孟加拉国的情况下，本文认为当代话语的身份和融合揭示了民族国家的性质和边界。它揭示了“融合”的语言是嵌入在“人口”与“民族”的殖民叙事结构的排斥不仅通过语言和种族，但贫困和社会空间。它还显示了殖民和后殖民寄存器横切和重叠的“现代性”和“进步”的殖民建设折叠成“污染”和“纯洁”的宗教话语。少数民族的声音导航通过这些话语属于索赔揭示了“民族信息”：民族归属感和所需的复杂的住宿不断变化的景观。
Defining the relationship between displaced populations and the nation state is a fraught historical process. The Partition of India in 1947 provides a compelling example, yet markedly little attention has been paid to the refugee communities produced. Using the case of the displaced ‘Urdu-speaking minority’ in Bangladesh, this article considers what contemporary discourses of identity and integration reveal about the nature and boundaries of the nation state. It reveals that the language of ‘integration’ is embedded in colonial narratives of ‘population’ versus ‘people-nation’ which structure exclusion not only through language and ethnicity, but poverty and social space. It also shows how colonial and postcolonial registers transect and overlap as colonial constructions of ‘modernity’ and ‘progress’ fold into religious discourses of ‘pollution’ and ‘purity’. The voices of minorities navigating claims to belonging through these discourses shed light on a ‘nation-in-formation’: the shifting landscape of national belonging and the complicated accommodations required.