Expellees and repatriates occupy a distinct liminal category between internal and international migration

Evidence

Despite their different designations, Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs share fundamental characteristics that allow us to bring them together in a common analytical framework. First, both groups were neither ‘internal’ migrants (for example, migration into the cities from rural areas) nor ‘international’ migrants (that is, migration between countries), but oscillated between these classic migration categories. This ambiguous, liminal position constitutes the specific character of their migration: while their country of origin had been considered the same as their country of arrival, their migration marked the drawing of a political border between the two. In contrast to ‘international’ migrants, both expellees and repatriates already had (or quickly received) the citizenship of their new homeland, while unlike ‘internal’ migrants, their country of origin was no longer considered part of the same political entity. — Manuel Borutta and Jan C. Jansen, Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar…, 57

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the analytical category that lets Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs be compared as one type of migration.
• XREF: Connects to the reader’s interest in threat/grievance-sustained group identity and decolonization migrations across the broader Borutta & Jansen volume. — connects to: Demographic categories of migrants are contingent socially constructed subjects; Both colonization and repatriation movements shared the premise of permanent racial difference — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1746

Broader Connections

• Both colonization and repatriation movements shared the premise of permanent racial difference #corroborates (0.78) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1746
• Demographic categories of migrants are contingent socially constructed subjects #expands (0.75)