Colonial elimination of natives operates through assimilation as much as killing

Evidence

Negatively, it strives for the dissolution of native societies. Positively, it erects a new colonial society on the expropriated land base.… In its positive aspect, elimination is an organizing principal of settler-colonial society rather than a one-off (and superseded) occurrence. The positive outcomes of the logic of elimination can include officially encouraged miscegenation, the breaking-down of native title into alienable individual freeholds, native citizenship, child abduction, religious conversion, resocialization in total institutions such as missions or boarding schools, and a whole range of cognate biocultural assimilations. All these strategies, including frontier homicide, are characteristic of settler colonialism. — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 420 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

As the logic of elimination has taken on a variety of forms in other settler-colonial situations, so, in Israel, the continuing tendency to Palestinian expulsion has not been limited to the unelaborated exercise of force. As Baruch Kimmerling and Joel Migdal have observed, for instance, Israeli officials have only permitted family unions “in one direction—out of Israel.” The Law of Return commits the Jewish state to numerically unlimited but ethnically exclusive immigration, a factor that, formalities of citizenship notwithstanding, militates against the assimilation of gentile natives. Thus assimilation should not be seen as an invariable concomitant of settler colonialism. Rather, assimilation is one of a range of strategies of elimination that become favoured in particular historical circumstances. — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 436 (#expands, via linked claim)

Did the invaders exterminate the native population, or did they superimpose themselves upon them and become to some extent blended with them? … Thus serious writers contend that the Anglo-Saxon conquest was for the bulk of the British community mainly a change of masters. — Winston Churchill, A History of the English-Speaking…, 107 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Settler colonial ‘elimination’ operates through assimilation, not just homicide — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism: A Critique of…, 420; Assimilation is one of several settler-colonial elimination strategies — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism: A Critique of…, 436; Colonial administrators used assimilated natives as agents to erode national culture — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 244 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Settler colonial ‘elimination’ operates through assimilation, not just homicide #corroborates (0.98) — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 420
• Assimilation is one of several settler-colonial elimination strategies #expands (0.92) — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 436
• Settlers often integrated with the native population instead of exterminating them #complicates (0.74) — Winston Churchill, A History of the English-Speaking…, 107