Key Terms

Question 1

diaspora

Answer 1

Noun

1. movement, migration, or scattering of people away from an established or ancestral homeland
2. people dispersed by whatever cause, to more than one location
3. people settled far from their ancestral homelands

extended communities in different countries

Question 2

internally displaced persons

Answer 2

People displaced by conflicts in their country

Question 3

itinerancy

Answer 3

1. The act from traveling place to place (perpetual traveling)
2. People who have no fixed home

Question 4

interdict

Answer 4

• n:authoritative prohibition
• Verb: to prohibit or forbid something
• Restrain a person from something
• Intercept a prohibited commodity (intercept its movement)

Question 5

mobility/stasis/limbo

Answer 5

implications of different kinds of movement and mobility, both within the national space and beyond/outside of it.

Question 6

identity

Answer 6

national v. communal
who you are in relation to your country or who you identify with

citizenship, perception, testament

Question 7

globalization

Answer 7

possible international influence

Question 8

transnationalism

Answer 8

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

Question 9

excision

Answer 9

• The act of removal

* Cutting off parts of land that is part of a nation

Question 10

The Palapa and “The Tampa Affair”

Answer 10

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

Question 11

non-refoulement

Answer 11

: making sure a nation does not send back refugees to their nation

Question 12

hospitality, guest and host

Answer 12

cosmopolitan right of universal hospitality to “share the globe”. Holds the nation-state accountable to a global community

Question 13

Dadaab refugee camp

Answer 13

refugee camp in Kenya, largest in the world, refugees mostly from Somalia, intense overcrowding

Question 14

palimpsest

Answer 14

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

Question 15

Edouard Glissant’s poetics of relation

Answer 15

• 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.

Question 16

frame story

Answer 16

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

Question 17

Sangatte camp

Answer 17

• 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.

Question 18

graphic narrative

Answer 18

text with image representations

Question 19

Refugee

Answer 19

outside of country of his nationality with inability to return based on fear, from 1951 UN Convention after WW2, official status from host nation

Question 20

space/place

Answer 20

geography of nation and citizenship, limbo, etc.

Question 21

non-arrival measures

Answer 21

impede access, include visas, excision, carrier sanction (fines), pre-inspection agreements, airports international zones, interdiction

Question 22

hospitality

Answer 22

“cosmopolitan right of universal hospitality,” moral responsibility owed to global community

Question 23

time

Answer 23

cyclical, reliving past via memory/trauma, no progress