January 3, 2022
Ep: 05 Immigration and Statehood: Are All Who Wander Lost?
Years of continuous news of crisis after crisis at the southern border of the US have highlighted the stark realities of immigration and migration.
In this context, I’m thinking about borders, about immigration and migration, national identity, and about unity and division in an increasingly global world.
There are vast differences in the experience of traveling, at home or abroad, depending on your nationality, race, gender, class, education, and more. Our identities influence our experience of moving between borders, whether you’re going across the globe or across town.
As many of us begin to consider traveling again, to school, to work, to places of worship, what does it mean to spend significant time with people who may not share our values? What does it mean to be able to move freely from one place to the next or not?
Resources
- UNHCR #IBELONG Campaign to End Statelessness
- World Monuments Fund
- Every Steph:Â 24 Top Ecotourism Destinations In The World
- Factbox: Where are the world’s stateless people? | Reuters
- Matador Network: Global Nomadic Communities
- Survival International: Nukak
- Non-voting members of the United States House of Representatives – Wikipedia
- “Foreign in a Domestic Sense”: US Territories and “Insular Areas” – National Immigration Forum
- “Nationals” but not “Citizens”: How the US Denies Citizenship to American Samoans
- Migrants Bring Economic Benefits for Advanced Economies – IMF Blog
- Why accepting refugees is a win-win-win formula

In This Episode
- How globalization and climate change threaten traditionally nomadic peoples
- How people become stateless, even in their ancestral homelands
- Why citizenship in the United States isn’t a simple yes or no question
- How digital nomads could change our concept of borders and citizenship
- 5 ways migrants and immigrants positively impact the economy
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