Nations built on migration nevertheless pursue racialized policies against minorities.
Evidence
The paradox of a nation that was built by migrants and that supposedly embraces all comers but that can at the same time pursue an aggressive racialized foreign policy while vilifying a small minority at home exercises Hiroko in the closing stages of the novel. … In America, an enforced patriotism with a certain ethnic bias came to the fore in the first years of the twenty-first century and, if anything, has grown more emboldened in the years since 9/11. — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 430
Categorization
Category: Contrarian or Surprising Claims
- XREF: The migrant-built-nation paradox connects to the reader’s core claim that migrant narratives must contend with the assimilation-rejection double bind.