Citation

Genova ND. Ethn. Racial Stud. 2018; 41(10): 1765-1782.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2018, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

10.1080/01419870.2017.1361543

PMID

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Abstract

We are currently witnessing a remarkable conjuncture between the escalation, acceleration, and diversification of migrant and refugee mobilities, on the one hand, and the mutually constitutive crises of "European" borders and "European" identity, on the other, replete with reanimated reactionary populist nationalisms and racialized nativisms, the routinization of antiterrorist securitization, and pervasive and entrenched "Islamophobia" (or more precisely, anti-Muslim racism). Despite the persistence of racial denial and the widespread refusal to frankly confront questions of "race" across Europe, the current constellation of "crises" presents precisely what can only be adequately comprehended as an unresolved racial crisis that derives fundamentally from the postcolonial condition of "Europe" as a whole, and therefore commands heightened scrutiny and rigorous investigation of the material and practical as well as discursive and symbolic productions of the co-constituted figures of "Europe" and "crisis" in light of racial formations theory.

Language: en

Keywords

asylum seekers; borders; migration; postcoloniality; Race; refugees; the Muslim Question