Migration politics often seem to presuppose national belonging as a given fact (Yuval-Davis 2011). However, as national belonging seem to denote both a strictly juridical relation and, simultaneously, less defi nable emotional attachments to a nation, it may be diffi cult to prove such belonging. How does one document national belonging when that belonging's juridical sanction is in question? In the following, we invite the reader to think of the
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