Cross-fadings of racialisation and migratisation: the postcolonial turn in Western European gender and migration studies

Abstract

Their work connects trans and queer feminist approaches with transnational feminism and postcolonial studies. Tudor's main research interest lies in analysing (knowledge productions on) migrations, diasporas and borders in relation to critiques of Eurocentrism and to processes of gendering and racialisation. Tudor has published on these topics with Feminist Review and Lambda Nordica and is the author of the monograph from [al'manja] with love. Their second monograph Ascriptions of Migration is forthcoming with Palgrave in the series 'Thinking Gender in Transnational Times'.

Afterword: Interrogating naturalisation, naturalised uncertainty and anxious states

“…Finally, migratisation can take the form of migratism, which ‘ascribes migration to certain bodies and establishes non-migration as the norm of intelligible national and European belonging.’ (Tudor, 2018: 1058) Racially minoritised subjects are presumed outsiders even when citizens; or, as I show elsewhere (Fortier, 2021), racially majoritised but linguistically minoritised subjects such as white-bodied Europeans residing in Britain are expelled from the nation. Through intertwined regimes of seeing and regimes of hearing, migratism and racism together enable the concealment of ‘whiteness’ and ‘national’ as unmarked historically constructed categories that developed through histories of domination.…”

“…This is about recognising the historical legacies of structures, discourses and imaginaries – such as the racial state (Goldberg, 2002) and ‘racial thinking’ – and to ask how they manifest themselves in specific contexts and at specific times. What counts as citizenship is continuously re-shaped and re-defined, while at the same time, there remain some constants such as the colonial impetus of European imperialism that enduringly questions the rightful presence of racially minoritised citizens and residents in European countries (El-Enany, 2020; Tudor, 2018). Unpacking ‘uncertain citizenship’, then, must recognise that there are international trends or ‘converging outcomes’ that need to be understood in context in order to better capture the specific histories and social political climates that shape and impact on definitions of, and inequalities within, citizenship regimes.…”

Gendered Migration Waves and Queering Time: Kurdish migrant men in Belgium

“…The physical crossing of borders transforms the Kurdish man into a "migrant" and shapes a racialised subjectivity that stands at the margin of Belgian society. Tudor (2018) reminds us that not all border-crossings construct a migrant. Rather, the category of migrant functions as a hierarchical ascription that relies on nationality, country of origin, and, often times, class.…”

“…Rather, the category of migrant functions as a hierarchical ascription that relies on nationality, country of origin, and, often times, class. In the construction of Europe as white, the Kurdish man appears as the racialised Other and, subsequently, as never at home in Europe (Tudor 2018). His localisation in a physical no-person's-land, where he neither belongs to the hegemonic space nor the homeland, turns him into the perpetual migrant, and materialises a different mode of being "male."…”

Im/possibilities of refusing and choosing gender

“…Migratism is the power relation that ascribes migration to certain bodies and creates with this hierarchical positions of belonging to the nation. This process of migratisation works interdependently with racialisation, but is not the same (Tudor, 2014(Tudor, , 2017a(Tudor, , 2018. 11.…”