The roots of uprooting: migrant oral history and internationalist solidarity

IF 0.7 Q3 ETHNIC STUDIES Social Identities Pub Date : 2022-07-04 DOI:10.1080/13504630.2022.2109618
Alborz Ghandehari
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ABSTRACT This article explores a transnational oral history project on migrant justice which I developed in collaboration with refugee organizers in Greece and students in my course ‘Borders and Migration’ at the University of Utah. In the project, US-based and Greece-based im/migrant communities exchange oral histories with each other on their struggles and experiences. I argue that this exchange shed light on avenues for building internationalist solidarity among migrant justice movements worldwide. The project made visible some common ‘roots of uprooting,’ namely the ways in which structures of capitalism and imperialism have uprooted disparate peoples from their homelands. I thus argue that freedom of movement and freedom from uprooting emerge as twin struggles in these oral histories. I then explore the ways that both sides of the exchange underscored that community need not be defined by citizenship papers or lack thereof, by (militarized) national borders, or by people’s particular ethnic identity. Rather, participants spoke to each other of steadfastly building strong, meaningful communities based on mutual aid despite their presence being deemed illegal or otherwise illegitimate. These included a direct-action squat by refugees of a vacant hotel in Athens as well as other forms of community building by DACAmented youth on the project’s US side. I ultimately argue that these acts help light the way to a world not based on profit and its tendency to displace people, but rather based on sharing resources in solidarity. The latter roots people together instead of uprooting them from homes and from one another.
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背井离乡的根源:移民口述历史与国际主义团结
摘要本文探讨了一个关于移民司法的跨国口述历史项目,该项目是我与希腊难民组织者和犹他大学“边境与移民”课程的学生合作开发的。在该项目中,美国和希腊的移民社区就他们的斗争和经历相互交流口述历史。我认为,这次交流揭示了在世界各地的移民正义运动中建立国际主义团结的途径。该项目揭示了一些共同的“连根拔起的根源”,即资本主义和帝国主义结构将不同民族从家园连根拔出的方式。因此,我认为,在这些口述历史中,迁徙自由和免于背井离乡的自由是两种斗争。然后,我探讨了交流双方强调的社区不需要由公民身份文件或缺乏公民身份文件、(军事化的)国家边界或人们的特定种族身份来定义的方式。相反,与会者相互交谈,在互助的基础上坚定地建立强大、有意义的社区,尽管他们的存在被视为非法或非法。其中包括难民在雅典一家空置酒店的直接行动,以及该项目美国一侧的DAAmended青年的其他形式的社区建设。我最终认为,这些行为有助于照亮通往一个不是基于利润及其使人民流离失所的趋势,而是基于团结共享资源的世界的道路。后者把人们团结在一起,而不是把他们从家里和彼此之间连根拔起。
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Social Identities
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期刊介绍: Recent years have witnessed considerable worldwide changes concerning social identities such as race, nation and ethnicity, as well as the emergence of new forms of racism and nationalism as discriminatory exclusions. Social Identities aims to furnish an interdisciplinary and international focal point for theorizing issues at the interface of social identities. The journal is especially concerned to address these issues in the context of the transforming political economies and cultures of postmodern and postcolonial conditions. Social Identities is intended as a forum for contesting ideas and debates concerning the formations of, and transformations in, socially significant identities, their attendant forms of material exclusion and power.
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