2010 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Sovereignty, Security and Race : Role of the Counter-Public Sphere in Immigration Exclusion
| Project/Area Number |
21830138
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Research Field |
Sociology
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| Research Institution | Nanzan University |
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Principal Investigator |
OOI Yuki Nanzan University, 外国語学部, 講師 (10551070)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2009 – 2010
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| Keywords | 越境移動のセキュリタイゼーション / 主権 / 国境管理 |
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| Research Abstract |
In the first year of this project, I explored how Chinese migrants in the late-nineteenth-century America were constituted as a"threat"to security of the nation and the series of exclusion laws that were enacted against them. The securitization of migration and the failed counter-securitization movement by migrants can be understood in the context of the competition between federal sovereignty and state sovereignty, which took place because of American expansionism.
In the second year, I expanded the scope of my research in terms of time period, group and regions. I examined how undocumented immigrants from Latin America are constructed as a"threat"to the United States and its people, and the counter-securitization movements taking place now.
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