diaspora
Noun
- movement, migration, or scattering of people away from an established or ancestral homeland
- people dispersed by whatever cause, to more than one location
- people settled far from their ancestral homelands
extended communities in different countries
internally displaced persons
People displaced by conflicts in their country
itinerancy
- The act from traveling place to place (perpetual traveling)
- People who have no fixed home
interdict
- n:authoritative prohibition
- Verb: to prohibit or forbid something
- Restrain a person from something
- Intercept a prohibited commodity (intercept its movement)
mobility/stasis/limbo
implications of different kinds of movement and mobility, both within the national space and beyond/outside of it.
identity
national v. communal
who you are in relation to your country or who you identify with
citizenship, perception, testament
globalization
possible international influence
transnationalism
Adjective
1. going beyond national boundaries or interests: a transnational economy, transnational flow, transnational migration.
2. comprising persons, sponsors, etc., of different nationalities: a transnational company.
• Compromising persons, sponsor of different nations
• How nations operate in relation to one another
• Weary of defining a country through one story
- extends over just national. The concept, issue or idea moves across multiple nations
excision
- The act of removal
* Cutting off parts of land that is part of a nation
The Palapa and “The Tampa Affair”
fishing vessel sinking off coast of Australian Christmas Island, 2001, Norwegian captain, asylum seekers from Afghanistan, Indonesia 12 hrs away, Tampa picked them up, deterritorialization in Pacific Solution
non-refoulement
: making sure a nation does not send back refugees to their nation
hospitality, guest and host
cosmopolitan right of universal hospitality to “share the globe”. Holds the nation-state accountable to a global community
Dadaab refugee camp
refugee camp in Kenya, largest in the world, refugees mostly from Somalia, intense overcrowding
palimpsest
Noun
• Writing material (as a parchment or a tablet) used one or more times after earlier writing has been erased
• Something having usually diverse layers or aspects apparent beneath the surface
The sea as a palimpsest of immigrants and histories
Edouard Glissant’s poetics of relation
- Identity is constructed in relation and not in isolation
- You create your identity in your relation with others. You can’t figure out your identity by being alone.
- “every identity is extended in seeing it in another person”
- forge community – reconnect.
frame story
Novels function as a Frame Story (n):
1. Secondary story or stories embedded in the main story
2. Narrative providing the framework for connecting a series of otherwise unrelated stories
3. A literary device that uses such a narrative structure
• The frame story leads readers from a broader, overreaching story into another, small one (orseceral ones) within it
• Functions in the way as Arabian nights (story within a story, within a story)
- Telling a story to stay alive
Sangatte camp
- Colloquially dubbed “Sans-gate,” or: without gate, by immigration critics complaining about the flow of refugees into Britain through this tunnel
- They felt that it was as though there was no gate on the camp or the tunnel restricting refugees and migrants from entering the UK
- Eurotunnel is at the frontline of Britain’s defenses against illegal immigration.
graphic narrative
text with image representations
Refugee
outside of country of his nationality with inability to return based on fear, from 1951 UN Convention after WW2, official status from host nation
space/place
geography of nation and citizenship, limbo, etc.
non-arrival measures
impede access, include visas, excision, carrier sanction (fines), pre-inspection agreements, airports international zones, interdiction
hospitality
“cosmopolitan right of universal hospitality,” moral responsibility owed to global community
time
cyclical, reliving past via memory/trauma, no progress
