Sons da nação

Abstract

Based on serious questions proposed in the book “Who Sings the Nation State?”, Spivak and Butler discuss the situation of immigrants, refugees and the so-called “stateless”, dialoguing with other thinkers, such as Hannah Arendt when talking about totalitarianism, Giorgio Aganbem when exploring the concept of homo sacer, among others. In this book, the authors write mainly about refugees, highlighting that the expulsion or destitution of these subjects between legal states only demonstrates their conditions of transit between borders and not yet their citizenship; as their reception is only accepted through a series of forms, obligations and legal prerogatives, so that they are considered citizens.