The Figure of the Migrant

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Thomas Nail

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This book offers a much-needed new political theory of an old phenomenon. The last decade alone has marked the highest number of migrations in recorded history. Constrained by environmental, economic, and political instability, scores of people are on the move. But other sorts of changes-from global tourism to undocumented labor-have led to the fact that to some extent, we are all becoming migrants. The migrant has become the political figure of our time. Rather than viewing migration as the exception to the rule of political fixity and citizenship, Thomas Nail reinterprets the history of political power from the perspective of the movement that defines the migrant in the first place. Applying his "kinopolitics" to several major historical conditions (territorial, political, juridical, and economic) and figures of migration (the nomad, the barbarian, the vagabond, and the proletariat), he provides fresh tools for the analysis of contemporary migration.

Author Biography:

Thomas Nail is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Denver.

Release date Australia

September 23rd, 2015

Author

Thomas Nail

Pages

312

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Dimensions

152x231x23

ISBN-13

9780804787178

Product ID

23088348

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