Metahistory as diaspora practice: mobilising the Dutch black radical tradition

Balkenhol, Markus; Coenders, Yannick

doi:10.1080/1369183x.2020.1812281

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“…What to think of nativism as a new context for understanding the place of migration and migrants in contemporary Western societies is a question for social scientists doing research in the presentand for historians in the future. What the articles in this issue empirically demonstrate is both more modest and more ambitious: how ideas about and memories of the past can function as a powerful driver of inclusion and exclusion in European immigration societies, sometimes allowing for more inclusion (see Perron (2020) on Germany, and Balkenhol & Coenders (2020) on Dutch black activism in this issue) but, more often than not, intensifying barriers to full-fledged membership along culturalized lines.…”

Section: A European Comparisonmentioning

confidence: 99%

Past in the present: migration and the uses of history in the contemporary era

Bertossi

Duyvendak

Foner

2020

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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This Introduction addresses questions of migration, history, and memory in the context of recent changes in public discourses on immigrant integration in Europe, focusing on how history is used to make claims about the inclusion of some and the exclusion of others. We highlight how these debates are often framed in a nostalgic tone that sustains categorizations and classifications of the population in terms of 'natives', who are allegedly historically rooted, and non-natives, lacking historical roots. To shed light on this process, we put forward the notion of historical repertoires to refer to ways that views of history are used to evaluate and justify the present. We lay out three possible components of these repertoires, showing their utility in analysing the debates discussed in the six European case studies in this issue (Germany, Hungary, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, France, and Greece). We also consider some parallels with the United States in how the history of immigration is remembered and used in public debates and political discourse.

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Section: A European Comparisonmentioning

confidence: 99%