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This chapter introduces the theme of the paradox(es) of diasporic identity as it relates to notions of belonging, placemaking, migration, and transnational citizenship. It explores these notions within complex local and globalizing processes and the “nervous conditions” that these create for the “migrant” in constant search of a home. The chapter questions the definitiveness with which notions of home and belonging have been framed in the discourses on race, migration, and social relationships, and calls for new ways of narrativizing life on the different boundaries where human relations intersect. The contributors of the volume are all from higher education, reflecting on their own experiences of migration, home, and belonging.
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These could also be called “privilege leveling devices” since they test everyone the same way (particularly GRE and SAT), and the test does not always care about skin color or ethnic background. It sort of aligns with Weber’s notion of bureaucracy as leveling of social differences.
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Maiangwa, B. (2023). The Paradox(es) of Diasporic Identity, Race, and Belonging. In: Maiangwa, B. (eds) The Paradox(es) of Diasporic Identity, Race and Belonging. Politics of Citizenship and Migration. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-38797-5_1
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