One virus, two worlds

Hidden in Plain Sight: “Neutral” Enclosures for High‐Skilled Immigrants During COVID‐191

“…As members of gendered and racialized groups, nonimmigrants are also subject to micro and macro ideologies, interactions and institutional arrangements that produce racialized subjects (e.g., Bonilla‐Silva 2003; Menjívar 2006; Omi and Winant 2015; Ray 2019). Violence, vandalism and crimes against these groups and even their religious places (e.g., Aranda and Vaquera 2015; Cazenave 2018; Esquivel 2019; Joshi 2020; Kao 2022; Purkayastha 2005; Selod 2018; Simpson 2017), remain key processes of control. The construction of hypervisibility (through hate speech and violence) and invisibility (through silences about the harmful impact of structures that envelop them) are central to the formation and sustenance of enclosures targeting this group.…”