How is racial violence enacted against migrants and refugees globally?
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.
Nicholas De Genova
Palestinian Human Rights and the Struggle for Racial Justice
in the Medical School, UCLA