“I don’t mean to sound racist but … ” Transforming racism in transnational Europe

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ID17545797
AuthorsMagdalena Nowicka (0000-0002-4535-4246, Department of Social Sciences, Humboldt University Berlin, Berlin, Germany, corresponding author)
Year2017
Volume41
Issue5
Pages824-841
Publication date2017-03-15
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueEthnic and Racial Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0141-9870 • E-ISSN: 1466-4356
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01419870.2017.1302093
OpenAlexW2602856356
LanguageEN
Citations received73
References cited36

Thinking of racism through the lens of its geographies and temporality – a transnational lens, as I understand it – is productive for our understanding of the current process of social integration of immigrants in European cities. I argue that an interactive model of racism can help us understand the spread (and revival) of racism in Europe, and develop a new take on intersections of racism and immigration. Using the example of the Polish "post-enlargement" immigration to England, I scrutinize how racism is altered through social networks spanning localities within and across national borders. I demonstrate how the research participants incorporate, reproduce, and transform racism present in the British multicultural public space into a cultural repertoire (habitus) they internalized before migration. I argue that racism is a transnational outcome of ongoing negotiations between past and current experiences, and between parties in two or more geographical locations

Acoustics · Anti-racism · Political science · Racism · Sociology · Sound (geography) · Xenophobia · Critical Race Theory in Education · Gender Studies · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Racial and Ethnic Identity Research

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