How is racial violence enacted against migrants and refugees globally?
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The brute racial fact of this deadly European border regime is seldom
Nicholas De Genova
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.”
Readings:
- Sherene Razack, “Human Waste and the Border: A Vignette.” Law, Culture, Humanities (2017): 1-13.
- Nicholas De Genova, “The “migrant crisis” as racial crisis: do Black Lives Matter in Europe?,” Ethnic and Racial Studies 41:10 (2018): 1765-1782.
Note: Featured Photo from The Connexxion, “French anti-immigrant group members jailed and fined“