Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 16:28:33 +1000 (EST)
From: "Glen Fuller" <g.fuller-AT-uws.edu.au>
Subject: Re: [BOU:] Bourdieu and Immigration?


Whoops, dang! Sorry Spoons, wrong email addy...

The paper in which the quote appeared without reference:

Verena Stolcke. 1995. "Talking Culture: New Boundaries, New Rhetorics 
of Exclusion in Europe" Current Anthropology, 36(1): 1- 24.

Ciao,
Glen.

> 
> From: Glen Fuller <g.fuller-AT-uws.edu.au>
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Sorry for the request, but does this quote below resonate with anyone?
> Does it look like an old aquaintance whose name you have forgotten? I
> immediately looked in the 'Official Language and Political Unity'
> section of LaSP, but I could not find it. It looks like a bit of a
> quotable quote so I was hoping someone might have used it before for
> something...
> 
> 'Everywhere, and from now on as much as in the society of origin as in
> the host society, [the immigrant] calls for a complete rethinking of
> the legitimate bases of citizenship and of the relationship between 
the
> state and the nation or nationality. An absent presence, he obliges us
> to question not only the reactions of rejection which, taking the 
state
> as an expression of the nation, are vindicated by claiming to base
> citizenship on commonality of language and culture (if not "race") but
> also the assimilasionist "generosity" that, confident that the state,
> armed with education, will know how to reproduce the nation, would 
seek
> to conceal a universalist chauvinism.'
> 
> I will find out in which text it is quoted (someone sent it to me for
> help).
> 
> Any assistance would be appreciated.
> 
> Ciao,
> Glen.
> 
> -- 
> PhD Candidate, Centre for Cultural Research
> University of Western Sydney
> 
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