Abstract
The foreclosure of emotion in a passport photograph, the identity document that ties a person to a nation, illuminates a contradiction between feeling and citizenship. On the one hand, as these instructions for the passport photographs suggest, emotion obscures the identity of the citizen. On the other, as I will discuss in further detail, emotion, or the capacity for it, is very much a part of the conception of the modern citizen. My paper will take up this contradiction in order to examine the relationship between diaspora and citizenship. Through an exploration of the passport photograph, I argue diasporic subjects lay bare the problem of emotion at the heart of contemporary citizenship.
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