Voluntary self-exile and professional hybridization mark the emigre theorist much more than forced exile.

Evidence

Suffice it to say that there is a very considerable resonance. in this narrative of class origin, the migration as a voyage in, and preferred metropolitan locationthe pleasures of self-exile much more often than those of forced exile - and the subsequent professionalization and hybridization (‘cultural amphibians’ is Said’s laudatory description) which far exceeds the terms of any personal choice that Ranajit Guha might or might not have made, even though he is the one who is singled our. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 884

Categorization

• QUESTION: Flag the forced-vs-voluntary exile distinction as a lever for the reader’s own question about whether strategic positioning is available to all subjects or only privileged ones.