The crumbs of colonialism: the immigration process-from savages to civilized and shifting of submission from one sovereign to another

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Author: Fatima Ahtesham

Keywords: colonialism, citizenship, sovereignty, colonization, racism, homosacer, nations, nation-states, exclusion, inclusion, immigration, savages, neocolonialism

Abstract: The following article aims to explore the aftermath of colonialism in different shapes and forms. Moreover, the paper will also explain the ways racial and national identities are affected in the building of nationalism and its consequent effects during the process of acquiring the citizenship of another country (shifting our submission to another sovereign). I argue that colonialization was not only geographical but also racial and intellectual. The theories that evolved in the racialized colonial period such as social evolution theory are still seen in some of the workings of institutions (such as the Immigration Office). However, the application of social evolution theory is much more subtle now and essentially reflects the same colonial mindset. Hence, I will conclude that because of historical connectivity and neocolonialism immigration becomes a right. I will also deduce that the complex yet unnecessary immigration process renders the "submission to the sovereign" in limbo which disturbs the whole idea of nationalism

Article Info: Received in revised form: 22 Aug 2023; Accepted: 30 Sep 2023; Available online: 09 Oct 2023

DOI: 10.22161/ijeel.2.5.3

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