The Racial Violence Hub

Unit 7: Transnational Anti-Migrant and Anti-Refugee Violence

Featured Photo from The Connexxion, “French anti-immigrant group members jailed and fined“

How is racial violence enacted against migrants and refugees globally?

View the following cases on RDIC:

Image of Romani Emblem, click to visit the Jan Szamko case
Photo from RDIC, click to visit the Reza Barati case
Photo from Women in and Beyond the Global, click to visit the Lucía Vega Jiménez case

The brute racial fact of this deadly European border regime is seldom acknowledged, because it immediately confronts us with the cruel (post)coloniality of the “new” Europe. In the face of the inevitable and ever-more bountiful harvest of empire, past and present, the mobility of the vast majority of people from formerly colonized countries – indeed, the vast majority of humanity – has been preemptively illegalized.

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