Session Abstract

This roundtable considers the ways in which both national identity and formal definitions of nationality have been unsettled by the movement of people within and across borders during the long 20^th century.  Because individual states maintain different legal regimes around citizenship, migration challenges conceptions of national belonging in locally specific ways and to diverse effects.  But for people on the move, being excluded from nationality has serious, often unintended consequences, including xenophobia, deportation, and social exclusion.