“Undocumented and unafraid”? Challenging the bureaucratic paradigm

Among immigrant rights activists, journalists, and scholars the term “undocumented” has gained support as an alternative to the criminalizing and dehumanizing “illegal.” By contrast, this essay critiques so-called DREAMers' articulation of an “undocumented” subjectivity, arguing that the term, invoking a Weberian bureaucracy, undermines activists' cooptive intent and subversive agenda. To be undocumented in what Robert Hariman calls “a polity of offices,” which privileges the written text, is to be both unintelligible and powerless. These constraints, however, may be circumvented by the use of web-text for mobilization, recruitment, and networking. Informed by Gregory Ulmer's notion of “electracy,” I posit web-text as transitional, potentially capable of contesting the authority of the bureaucracy.     

碑志所见明清镇安县移民的地缘结构及其它

明清以来,随着政府禁山政策的逐步松动和撤消,大量外省籍移民迁入陕西境内。他们来陕后多选择陕南山地。商洛市镇安县以其独特的山川地貌,成为迁入户的优先选择地。大量墓志也证明了这一点。他们不仅给镇安带来了大量人口,增加了劳动力,也将他们原籍的文化和风俗习惯传播开来。他们的开拓精神对我们今天的社会发展和西部大开发具有积极的意义。     

瑶族文化中心漂移过程考

瑶族的不断迁徙,使瑶族的文化中心随着其迁徙而漂移不定。在不同时期,瑶族在不同地域形成了其不同的文化中心：黄炎时期以黄河中下游流域为中心;尧舜先秦时期以江淮地区为中心;两汉南北朝时期以两湖、江西之间及浙江闽赣为中心;隋唐时期以湖南洞庭、五溪为中心;宋元时期以五岭南北为中心;明清至今以广西金秀大瑶山为中心。     

¿Dónde Está la Biblioteca? It's a Damn Shame: Outdated,Inadequate, and Nonexistent Law Libraries in Immigrant Detention Facilities

This article proposes that all immigrant detainees should have meaningful access to a properly equipped law library. The article begins with an overview of the current lack of access to law libraries in immigrant detention facilities. The article then moves on to argue for a statutory right mandating that an immigrant detainee have meaningful access to a properly equipped law library. Finally, the article explores what it truly means to be a “properly equipped law library” and what level of access should be guaranteed to immigrant detainees.     

The ‘[h]unt for new Canadians begins in the classroom*’: the construction and contradictions of Canadian policy discourse on international education

In Canada’s first-ever strategy, international education (IE) is linked to immigration policy with international students (IS) recruited as ‘ideal’ immigrants. This paper engages in policy sociology and Ball's concepts of 'policy as text' and 'policy as discourse' (10). It follows three stages of critical policy discourse analysis. The first a simple tally of the most commonly used words/phrases in the Strategy; the second analyses it using Van Leeuwen’s framework and the third presents results from a study on the perception and experiences of IS, exposing the gap between policy rhetoric and practice. The paper concludes that critical discourse analysis is a powerful tool to uncover policy values/ideologies, identify legitimation strategies and reveal perpetuation of power relations/status quo within Canadian society.     

谈当代美国移民政策的改革

美国是一个典型的移民国家,可以说没有移民就没有美国。现今随着移民的大量涌入,美国不可避免地出现了许多矛盾。要解决这些矛盾,美国移民政策势必面临改革,移民政策改革受诸多因素的制约。本文结合美国移民政策的历史和实际对现今美国政策移民改革做一简要的探析,今后一段时间移民政策改革面临怎样的形势。     

集体记忆视角下移民村落共同体的形成过程

易地扶贫搬迁是中国扶贫的重要方式。因为地理空间的改变,扶贫移民面临生计资本、社会网络资本、社会文化资本的断裂,远距离扶贫移民尤其明显。移民新村建成后,村民为了更好地生活,主动寻找以往生活的痕迹,重建自己的舒适区,并在这一过程中逐渐形成对新村的认同。以甘肃D村为例,移民村充分发挥主体性,以集体记忆的传承和延续重构了新村社会关系网络、居住空间和仪式习俗,形成了共同的身份话语,达成了一致的生活方式与价值认同,促进了这一村落共同体的形成。     

Relational citizenship: Examining Taiwanese membership development through immigrant framing in public discourses

This essay unpacks how new immigrants and citizenship are framed in public discourse in Taiwan. Since the 1980s, Taiwan has experienced significant demographic changes. As a postcolonial, neoliberal capitalist democracy, imbued with Confucianism and collective interests, Taiwan provides an intriguing case for study. Through analyzing discourses of new immigrants, relational citizenship emerged as a strategy to anchor and authenticate membership in Taiwan. This challenges discussions on belongingness beyond the language of law, economics, and humanitarianism, to address interactions that occur between citizens and im/migrants as interdependent and relational partners. Although the concept of relational citizenship is culturally specific, it may also be applied to other societies and contexts.     

“Oh my god! You have become so Americanized”: Paradoxes of adaptation and strategic ambiguity among female immigrant faculty

Guided by De La Garza and Ono’s differential adaptation theory, we examine discourses from immigrant women faculty in the U.S. academy. We utilize thematic analysis to analyze interviews with 26 self-identified immigrant faculty members. Our analysis reveals three interrelating themes: negotiating foreign-female body politics, navigating paradoxes of adaptation, and deploying strategic ambiguity. We theorize the notion of “micro/macro-adaptation” describing mundane and cumulative adaptations that cultural “strangers” make, negotiate, and/or are expected to enact, which paradoxically can function to further disorient, alienate, or marginalize them.