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The Racialization of the New European Migration to the UK

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ID8044568
AuthorsJon E Fox (0000-0003-2428-3482, University of Bristol), Laura Moroşanu (0000-0002-1526-1866, University of Bristol), Eszter Szilassy (0000-0002-6267-0531, University of Bristol)
Year2012
Volume46
Issue4
Pages680-695
Publication date2012-04-18
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSociology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0038-0385 • E-ISSN: 1469-8684
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0038038511425558
OpenAlexW2053395960
LanguageEN
Citations received227
References cited45

The purpose of our article is to examine how current East European migration to the UK has been racialized in immigration policy and tabloid journalism. The state’s immigration policy, we argue, exhibits features of institutionalized racism that implicitly invokes shared whiteness as a basis of racialized inclusion. The tabloids, in contrast, tend toward cultural racism in their coverage of these migrations by explicitly invoking cultural difference as a basis of racialized exclusion. Our analysis focuses on two cohorts of migrants: Hungarians, representing the larger 2004 entrants, and Romanians, representing the smaller 2007 entrants. The processes of racialization we examine in this article reveal degrees of whiteness that give ‘race’ continued currency as an idiom for making sense of these migrations and the migrants that people them

Immigration · Immigration policy · Inclusion–exclusion principle · Political science · Politics · Race (biology) · Racialization · Racism · Sociology · State (computer science) · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Gender Studies · Law · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Refugees, and Integration

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