Claims of national uniqueness are constitutive features of migrant-group status

Evidence

This volume challenges the very idea that Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs are to be considered incomparable and singular entities. By subjecting their histories to a systematic comparison, it becomes clear that ‘nationalization’ and ‘singularization’ are an essential part of their status as a peculiar group of migrants. — Manuel Borutta and Jan C. Jansen, Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar…, 105

Categorization

• XREF: Contradiction of a common assumption the reader may encounter — that each diaspora is sui generis and that comparative study is illegitimate. Connects to historian’s craft of denaturalizing national exception narratives. — connects to: Demographic categories of migrants are contingent socially constructed subjects; Hybridity discourse symbolically excluded non-European diasporas from national claims; Minority status is relative to national context (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Post-WWI migrations and minority populations corroded the nation-state’s legitimacy #corroborates (0.85) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 654
• Demographic categories of migrants are contingent socially constructed subjects #qualifies (0.80)
• Minority status is relative to national context #qualifies (0.80)
• Hybridity discourse symbolically excluded non-European diasporas from national claims #responds-to (0.75)