St. Thomas Law Review
First Page
449
Document Type
Article
Abstract
The following three articles by Dominique Legros, Robert Koulish, and Cesar Cuauhtémoc Garcia Hernández concern laws, politics, and philosophies involving transnational migration. Individually and in sum, these articles productively engage with the radical multidimensionality of both racial identity and racial governance. In this introduction, I will briefly describe the articles and offer very few comments thereon, most of which emphasize what I believe to be the articles most important cumulative contribution regarding the complexity and centrality of race within forces and discourses of citizenship, territory, sovereignty, and nationality. Hence, the title of this introduction, which is intended to suggest both that those who cross the physical and other borders of nationstates are often racialized, and that race itself crosses and collapses numerous conceptual borders, operating as an opportunistic and inconsistent reification of often related but irreducible attributes, interests, and identities.
Recommended Citation
Tucker Culbertson,
Racial Migrations,
20
St. Thomas L. Rev.
449
(2008).
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