White enough, not white enough
Racism and racialisation among Poles in the UK
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3617841 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kasia Narkowicz (0000-0003-3733-922X, Middlesex University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 49 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 1534-1551 |
| Publication date | 2023-04-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | New Community (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0047-9586 • E-ISSN: 1469-9451 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/1369183x.2022.2154913 |
| OpenAlex | W4319841186 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 58 |
| References cited | 56 |
This paper discusses race, racialisation and whiteness in relation to Eastern European migrants living in Western Europe. Focusing on Poles in the UK, it examines both Polish migrants’ experiences of racism as well as their own investment into racial exclusions of other racialised groups. The paper interrogates how migrants navigate their peripheral whiteness in broader racial hierarchies of Eastern European in-betweenness that are both historically rooted and constantly negotiated. Benefitting from relatively easy access to the UK, Polish migrants occupy at once a racially privileged and racially marginal position that echoes historical tensions around the place of Eastern Europe in wider racial hierarchies of Europeanness. While being white enough to engage in racial exclusions Eastern Europeans are at the same time not white enough to escape racialisation. Drawing on semi-structured interviews with Poles in the UK conducted between 2019–2020 the paper offers insight into complex racialising practices of Polish migrants when they are both racialised and able to benefit from their position as ‘paler migrants’ to distance themselves from other migrants as well as ‘darker citizens’. It contributes to scholarship on racialisation of East–West movers within Europe, in-betweenness and whiteness
Anti-racism · Immigration · Political science · Racism · Scholarship · Sociology · Eastern European Communism and Reforms · Gender Studies · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Polish Historical and Cultural Studies
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PolishLebensraum
| Unique citing works | 58 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 19,33 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 57 |