Giorgio Agamben

There is a deep history of exclusionary state policies and laws in regards to immigrants in general, which profoundly inform the sentiment towards asylum seekers today. The United States for example had the Chinese Exclusion Act from 1875 to 1882, and the 1924 Johnson-Reed Act which limited the total number of immigrants per year (Rose-Redwood, The United States: Historical and Contemporary Migration, 2016). These two examples show the racialized and restrictive immigration policies of the…

It has become increasingly unpopular within the academy to think of things through a poststructuralist, multicultural frame in which the myriad of overlapping identities situate a given Being within a particular time and space. Yet, such a structural attempt to think through the problem of Indigeneity and the West might enhance the explanatory power of postcolonial and settler colonial studies of the problem at hand. In light of this, I attempt to explain the way that the Settler and their…

The terms nation, nationality, and nationalism are ideas that are not only strange but ambiguous. They become very hard terms to define within the real world. They are developed through a myriad of differing parts. These can be both tangible and ideological things. Physically people often identify themselves based on where they live or their ancestors are from. National identity gets more complicated than that because people identify religiously, ideologically, politically or have a sense of…