Abstract

This article's first section proposes an outline of settler colonial formations that emphasises their structural distinction from both metropolitan and colonial/postcolonial ones. This definition is then offered as a basis for theoretically distinguishing between "settler" and other displacements. The article's second section explores the structural dissimilarity separating what are here defined as the "migrant" and the "settler" experiences. This analysis is subsequently used to contribute to a developing debate within global indigenous studies regarding the possibility of indigenous-migrant/antiracist alliances.