Breath of Hope: On the Writings of Eduardo Galeano

The Practice of Decolonizing Migration Studies

“…) By its very nature, the sociology of migration in the United States is a colonial project because the very idea of migration to the United States is a concept born of and into a colonial mindset. Settler colonialism made aliens of the indigenous people living in North America at the very moment the land on which the inhabitants lived was "discovered" by wandering and lost European voyagers (Galeano 1997;Glenn 2015). Colonizers birthed the "United States of America" on stolen lands and created naturalization processes leading to citizenship that were reserved only for "free white persons" (Haney Lopez 2006).…”