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ABSTRACT
Nations actively write themselves onto human bodies. They etch and scratch their borders onto human flesh with figurative, often contradictory, ink that delivers stark material impact. The impacts hold their greatest force in metering the hinged consequences of contingent citizenship for some and unfettered citizenship for a few others. In this essay, I consider the often overlooked logics of these national scriptings and the curricular potential we lose when we perpetuate the faulty idea that migration is only about movement across countries.
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Notes
1. Risk is a board game popular in the Westernized world that is composed acquiring armies and conquering as many other countries as possible. It was first created in 1958 by Parker Brothers Corporation.
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Leigh Patel
Leigh Patel is an associate professor of education at Boston College. She studies and writes about education as a historical site for structural oppression as well as always a place for potential liberation. Her latest book, Decolonizing educational research: From ownership to answerability, situates educational research within the ongoing structure of settler colonialism and recommends transformation away from settler logics.