"Migrant" didn't exist as a category until modernity. Before that you had refugees, invaders, slaves, and merchants/sailors (not counting nomads). In the 1300s there were 2 people who didn't fit those special categories (Ibn Batuta, Petrarch,...). Now: 244m, 3% of world.
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Ironically, "migrant" is probably the only identity that evokes anything comparable to a sentiment like "nationalism" for me. Having crossed a significant border (or being born to someone who has) is a serious bond with others who've done the same, regardless of race etc.
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James C. Scott has a great work on this (The Art of Not Being Governed, and to a lesser extent Weapons of the Weak)
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Yeah familiar with those, though I haven't yet read them. The extrapolated arguments from Seeing Like a State are obvious.
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I think they largely will form extra-legal personhoods, perhaps bitcoin (nakamoto: go were the state wont go) is one early look. Perhaps they will settle the internet instead of the land.
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