Race Ethnicity Migration and Nationalism

Running head: Race, Ethnicity, Migration, and Nationalism
Race, Ethnicity, Migration, and Nationalism
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Race, Ethnicity, Migration, and Nationalism2
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Introduction:...............................................................................................................................3
Discussion:.................................................................................................................................3
Conclusion:................................................................................................................................7
References:.................................................................................................................................8

Race, Ethnicity, Migration, and Nationalism3
Race, Ethnicity, Migration and Nationalism
Introduction:
Migration has been the defining issue of our age with people crossing borders and
boundaries that have resulted in the major crises of our times. As one writer who wrote a
book on life in the margins of America about a Chinese immigrant said of the migrant’s view
of the world :
“ – walking on the highways, taking busses, crossing the border – from one country to the
next, from rural to urban, mountain to desert , life to death “
Migration interacts with nationalism when a people for their difficult circumstances
have to move from their native land, native cultures to a different countries, different cultures
in faraway places. And the resistance they face in their new circumstances ranging from
adaptation to a new way of living to hostilities from the local crowd of the new place is how
nationalism and migration interact. In this essay it will be explored how the realities of
migration and nationalism have changed and remained same over the years, as the conflicts
have been here in the human world from ancient times.
Discussion:
The concept of liminality (the word comes from latin limen meaning a threshold)
originated in the field of anthropology and it means the lack of direction or disorientation that
happens in the middle stage of a rite of passage. It happens when a people lose their
traditional bearings of being in the earth but have not yet adapted into a new way of living.
The usage of the term has extended in recent times to describe cultural and political change as
well. During liminal periods, all kinds of social hierarchies may be temporarily suspended ,