Immigrants as settler colonists: boundary work between Dakota Indians and white immigrant settlers

A narrative of suffering and soil: Swedish migration and settler colonialism in northeast Argentina

“…(2005, p. 365) In this case, the element of finding good land does not exclude the presence of Indigenous Peoples; rather it allows for them to play a restrained part in it. As noted by other scholars (Hansen et al 2017(Hansen et al , p. 1923, even if the difference was imagined and lived, many times settler colonists and Indigenous Peoples lived in conditions that demanded cooperation. However, it is interesting to note that in terms of social memory, it seems that this relationship seems to have been forgotten over time.…”

“…From the outset of their journey from Sweden, they were homeless until the land in Misiones was made available to them. In this way, their journey transformed them from migrants into settler colonists (see Hansen et al 2017Hansen et al , p. 1919. Interviewees spoke about the way historical events unfolded and how the lives of 'los abuelos' were shaped by the conditions made available for them.…”

“…Interviewees describe the arrival of 'los abuelos' to a land imagined as 'unused' while simultaneously acknowledging the presence of people who already lived in the area and who, to a certain extent, helped them settle and adapt. This contradiction is only possible if discourse and state polities create different legal, economic, and social positions for the indigene and the settler (see Hansen et al 2017Hansen et al , p. 1919. Even if present in the narrative, it seems that the settler colonial discourse transforms the people who were already living in the area into subjects without any legitimate claims on the land, or peripheral details in the process of constructing a 'modern' pioneer society.…”

“…This article offers a cultural analysis of phenomena usually studied in different scholarly fieldsmigration history, colonial settlement, and indigenous dispossession. Recently, scholarly attention has turned to how migrants of the nineteenth centuryin this particular case Swedish migrantscontributed to colonizing processes in the Americas as they established themselves on lands already inhabited by Indigenous Peoples (Fur 2009, Fur 2016, Hansen et al 2017. By turning attention to Swedish migration to the Southern Cone, and the settlement of Swedes in Argentina as a settler colonial practice, this article focuses on the engagement of Swedish citizens in colonial practices and histories.…”