Immigration

Abstract

Postcolonial theory undermines the distinctions of inside and outside, of inclusion and exclusion, that form the basis of the very notion of immigration and its taken‐for‐granted assumptions: that a group belongs in a place and to move to a new place requires permission from the proper authorities. Postcolonial theory draws attention to the fact that “immigration” is, at its most basic level, a political technology of division that allows for the existence and replication of intense inequality, a system of global apartheid.