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This paper aims to re-examine the meaning of human migration from an anthropological perspective. Migration is a basic human impulse that has accelerated evolution. It is also a liminal phenomenon, namely a special occasion for cultural change and development. Globalization re-visualizes its significance in the modern context, but the semantic scope of migration will be distorted in the rationalist interpretation. For example, ethnographic evidence shows that migrants can develop their queer desire in the host society, which was hidden in the home country. Migration provides a liminal phase where migrants can seek in-between identity and "polymorphous perverse" desire. The meaning of such liminality is more appropriately interpreted in the anthropological model of shamanism than in the modern rationalist theory. Psychosomatic disorder can be transformed into spiritual transcendency through liminality of shamanistic initiation rite. Likewise, suffering migrants experience is not a static fate, but a path for transcendental trial. Although such transcendental leap is not always successful, we need to seek a new model of migration that encompasses spirituality and desire of migrants. The concept of "homo sacer," probed by Agamben, is a good clue to develop this consideration. |
