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    1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 30 Oct 2018
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      "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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    2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 30 Oct 2018
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      If migrants were a country, they'd be the 5th largest in the world. This is a hilariously disenfranchised group. Humanity has put itself into a nativist zugzwang since Westphalia: you move you lose. Instant demotion from human to subhuman.

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    3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 30 Oct 2018
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      Thought experiment: what would it take to organize migrants into a sort of virtual second-order nation? You prove you've lived/worked in 2+ countries, you get a "Globalist" passport that gets you some sort of recognition and privileges in the interstices of world. Like seasteads.

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    4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 30 Oct 2018
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      Do migrants as a class have any sort of collective action leverage against nations/nativists? You can't work within the vote-based representation system since most don't have voting rights. But could you, for instance, call a global migrant "strike" for example? (answer: no)

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    5. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 30 Oct 2018
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      This is going to be an increasingly critical problem as climate change drives up more migration, and more people enter relationships that create families spanning continents.

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    6. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 30 Oct 2018
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      It is interesting that 'non-state actor' and 'stateless actor' are basically synonyms for 'terrorist'. That's the starting perception you're working out of in terms of constructing legal personhood on this planet you cannot leave.

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 30 Oct 2018
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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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        1. Varun Adibhatla‏ @vr00n 30 Oct 2018
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          listen to this.. https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/your-papers-please?tab=summary … ..talks about a Nansen Passport issued by the League of Nations to Refugees post collapse of European land Empires. Contemporary example is G-* visas issued by the UN.pic.twitter.com/kdV8k0ZZXW

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        1. labib rahman‏ @labibrahman 30 Oct 2018
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          A part of me still believes that migrant identity == American identity but that part has been experiencing an all out assault for the past two years.

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          If you haven’t read Agamben’s Homo Sacer, I think you’d really dig it—this theme is a big one, of states deciding who is human and who not Foucault too obviously, but Agamben seems less well known and so more worth mentioning

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