The Role of Racism in the European ‘Migration Crisis’:

Georgi, Fabian

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“…More specifically, the concept distinguishes three key ways in which capital depends on restrictive border regimes to secure its (re‐)production: It utilizes them to regulate the contradiction between the relative autonomy of subaltern working class mobility and the imperial mode of living enjoyed by privileged class factions. This introduction of regulation theory (Lipietz ) into the debate about migration, borders, and capitalism seems especially productive (see Georgi , ). Moreover, restrictive bordering practices function as the repressive component of regional and global labor regimes.…”

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“…For a brief historical moment, the relationships of forces shifted decisively into a progressive direction. The E.U.’s border control regime was interrupted and within one year more than 1 million people reached safety in Europe (Buckel ; Georgi :189ff., :97ff.). The dominant trend, however, which has intensified after 2015, has been an expansion and radicalization of restriction.…”

Section: A New Level Of Restrictive Bordering Practicesmentioning

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Toward Fortress Capitalism: The Restrictive Transformation of Migration and Border Regimes as a Reaction to the Capitalist Multicrisis

Georgi

2019

Canadian Review of Sociology

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The article develops the concept of "fortress capitalism." The concept has two dimensions. First, it describes those elements within today's migration and border regimes that aim to control the mobility of the global working class in repressive ways. Second, it designates a dystopian future scenario, in which these repressive elements have massively expanded. Such a formation might develop as part of a twenty-first-century fascism. Based on historical materialism and critical theory, the article makes four points. First, it asserts that migration regimes are being transformed toward a new level of restrictiveness. Second, it argues that fortress capitalism complements theoretical motives that emphasize the uncontrollability of migration. Third, it contends that migration and border regimes in their emergence, dynamics, forms, and effects are closely linked to the intersectional dynamics of global capitalism as a whole. Fourth, it points out that global capitalism fundamentally depends on border regimes to regulate its contradictions. RésuméCet articleélabore le concept de « capitalisme forteresse ». Ce concept comporte deux volets. Premièrement, il décrit leséléments de la migration et des régimes frontaliers actuels visantà contrôler la mobilité de la classe ouvrière mondiale de façon répressive. Deuxièmement, il For helpful comments to this article, including earlier drafts, I am grateful to Lars Bretthauer, Joshua Hatton, Manjiri Palicha, Vishwas Satgar, Simon Noori, Stephan Scheel as well as two anonymous reviewers whose feedback was extremely helpful.

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Section: A New Level Of Restrictive Bordering Practicesmentioning

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Toward Fortress Capitalism: The Restrictive Transformation of Migration and Border Regimes as a Reaction to the Capitalist Multicrisis

Georgi

2019

Canadian Review of Sociology

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“…For example, Goldberg and Solomos conceive racism as a system of racially predicated relations based on domination and oppression (Goldberg and Solomos 2002, 4). This relational understanding of racism emphasizes the role that the construction of racial meanings plays in reproducing systems of domination and oppression and how racism intersects with other mechanisms of oppression such as those premised on class and gender (Camfield 2016;Georgi 2019;Roediger 2017). Racism cannot be seen merely as the ravings of racist subjects (Balibar 1991, 41) and as an ideology embraced by the far-right (Camfield 2016).…”

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Challenging oppression: how grassroots anti-racism in Berlin breaks borders

Perolini

2021

Ethnic and Racial Studies

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In recent years, the successful anti-migrant mobilization of populist radical right parties and movements in Germany has stimulated the anti-racist struggle. This article investigates the anti-racism of grassroots organizations that contest border regimes in Berlin. While grassroots anti-racism also intends to combat the ideology of populist radical right parties, it contributes distinctively to the debates on racism, colonialism and border regimes. Specifically, grassroots antiracism sheds light on the mechanisms through which border regimes oppress and racialize migrants. Crucially, by acknowledging the imbrication between historical racial inequalities and border regimes, grassroots organizations weave an anti-racist struggle against border regimes that is emancipatory for racialized migrants. I contend that grassroots anti-racism contributes to tackling the pervasive historical amnesia (Hall, S. 2000. "Conclusion: The Multicultural Question." In Un/settled Multiculturalisms: Diasporas, Entanglements, 'Transruptions', edited by B. Hesse. Zed Books) regarding colonialism and the role of racism in the construction of the German nation.

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“…Finally, many of these migrants are or have been racialized. They hail from less industrialized countries or the global South, and are working in places that are increasingly hostile to them as racialized migrant "others" (PICUM 2021; Hennebry and KC 2020;Melcior et al 2020;Georgi 2019;Gorodzeisky and Moshe 2019;European Network Against Racism 2016;Zegers De Beijl 2002;Miles 1986).…”

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Mapping Racial Capitalism: Implications for Law

González¹,

Mutua²

2022

JLPE

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The theory of racial capitalism offers insights into the relationship between class and race, providing both a structural and a historical account of the ways in which the two are linked in the global economy. Law plays an important role in this. This article sketches what we believe are two key structural features of racial capitalism: profit-making and race-making for the purpose of accumulating wealth and power. We understand profit-making as the extraction of surplus value or profits through processes of exploitation, expropriation, and expulsion, which are grounded in a politics of racemaking. We understand race-making as including racial stratification, racial segregation, and the creation of sacrifice zones, which reflect the strategies and outcomes of profit-making. The structural features of racial capitalism thus are mutually constitutive: profit-making processes create and reinforce the making of racial meaning, while race-making, underwritten by white supremacy, structures and facilitates the economic processes of profit-making. Together, they constitute a global system dependent on the unbridled extraction of wealth from both humans and nature.

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The Role of Racism in the European ‘Migration Crisis’:

Cited by 18 publications

References 14 publications

Toward Fortress Capitalism: The Restrictive Transformation of Migration and Border Regimes as a Reaction to the Capitalist Multicrisis

Toward Fortress Capitalism: The Restrictive Transformation of Migration and Border Regimes as a Reaction to the Capitalist Multicrisis

Challenging oppression: how grassroots anti-racism in Berlin breaks borders

Mapping Racial Capitalism: Implications for Law

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