Home Rule
Home Rule In Home Rule Nandita Sharma traces the historical formation and political separation of Natives and Migrants from the nineteenth century to the present to theorize the portrayal of Migrants…
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Home Rule
In Home Rule Nandita Sharma traces the historical formation and political separation of Natives and Migrants from the nineteenth century to the present to theorize the portrayal of Migrants as "colonial invaders." The imperial-state category of Native, initially a mark of colonized status, has been revitalized in what Sharma terms the Postcolonial New World Order of nation-states. Consequently, Migrants-the quintessential "people out of place"-increasingly face exclusion, expulsion, or even extermination. Under postcolonial rule, claims to autochthony-being the Native "people of a place"-are mobilized to define true national belonging.
Criteria for political membership have shrunk, immigration controls have intensified, all while practices of expropriation and exploitation have expanded. This turn to autochthony has led to a hardening of nationalism(s). Such politics exemplify