Critics- general immigrant experience Flashcards
(16 cards)
What does David Miller say about immigration?
‘Immigration need not pose problems, provided only that the immigrants come to share in a common national identity.
What does Francesco Castelli say about immigrants assimilation process?
‘Migrants have to undergo a difficult and often conflictive integration process in the hosting community.’
What does Andreea Deciu Ritivoi say about nostalgia for immigrants?
-‘Nostalgia is both the poison and the cure’ for immigrants
What does Morton say about the immigrant experience?
-Immigrant experience literature asks readers to ‘reflect on the ways in which characters negotiate with the dominant cultural values of a host culture.’
What does McLeod say about the “home” of immigrants?
-‘no single location can act as home. Their sense of identity and belonging may eternally be split.’
What does Wiley say about linguistic hegemony?
Linguistic hegemony is where dominant groups ‘convince others to accept their language norms… as standard.’
What is Edward Said’s theory of Orientalism?
-It is the view of the West that the Orient(the east) is savage and barbaric
-The east is then othered for being outside the Western norm and therefore inferior
-The west then gets the right to dominate the East and impose its values on them in order to save the Orient from itself
What does Avtar Brah say about home and roots?
1)Home is a mythic place of desire in the diasporic imagination”
2)home is not just a “mythic place of origins” but “home is also the lived experience of locality”
3)“ home is a place of no return, even if it is possible to visit the geographical territory that is seen as the place of origin”.
What does Homi K. Bhabba say about an immigrants experience?
“cultural hybridity”
What does Mikki Kendall say about roots?
”I went through periods of deep fascination with my roots, but I now know that the seeds of my family were across the water, and my roots are here in America.”
What does Aime Cesaire say about Colonisation?
“Colonization works to decivilize the colonized, to brutalise him in the true sense of the word, to degrade him,”
What does Alana Butler state about decolonialisation?
-‘Decolonial love became a necessity and act of care
What does Harald Bauder state about Migrant Labour?
1.”The labour of migrants is systematically devalued and marginalized”
What does Michael Foucault say about limiting migrant opportunities?
1.limiting migrant opportunites ‘enforce systems of hierarchy and exclusion.’
What does postcolonial theorist James Procter say about thresholds?
“ The thresholds of the dwelling places …are repetitious references within racial discourse.”
What does Gee say about immigrants changing themselves?
‘taking on a certain identity or performed role.’
