Defining US communities by home country erases complex migrations and imperial geopolitics
Evidence
The problem in deļ¬ning communities in the U.S. in terms of their home countries, however, lies not only in the continuity of homogenized and disarticulated geographies that separate Pakistan from South Asia and that place it into a larger group of Muslim countries and regions but also in complex migrations, foreign policies, and geopolitical strategies of empire building. ā Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims, 37
Categorization
- QUESTION: Worth exploring: what alternative frameworks exist for describing diaspora communities that escape the home-country fallacy the author critiques here?
- XREF: connects to: Bioregional spiritual geography forgets the transnational harms America causes ā Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalismā¦, 730