Breaking the Nation-State's Spell

Authors

Alexander Sager, Portland State UniversityFollow

Published In

Toward a cosmopolitan ethics of mobility : the migrant's-eye view of the world

Document Type

Book Chapter

Publication Date

12-20-2017

Abstract

Once the bias of methodological nationalism is recognized, the next step is to describe the world in ways that do not unduly privilege the nation-state. This chapter offers resources from the social sciences that help us to break the spell of methodological nationalism. It surveys scholarship in transnational history, transnationalism, mobility, and border studies that provides categories other than the nation-state that play a decisive role in understanding migration. This literature provides a richer and more diverse account of borders that has normative implications which have not received sufficient attention among normative theorists.

Description

© The Author(s) 2018

Part of the Mobility & Politics book series (MPP)

Locate the Document

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65759-2_3

DOI

10.1007/978-3-319-65759-2_3

Persistent Identifier

https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/26952

Citation Details

Sager A. (2018) Breaking the Nation-State’s Spell. In: Toward a Cosmopolitan Ethics of Mobility. Mobility & Politics. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham