International Day Against Racism
On the occasion of the International Weeks against #Racism, leading up to the International Day for the Elimination of #RacialDiscrimination on March 21, we are posting some references to thematically relevant contributions that have emerged from our researchers @mpimmg.
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Isaac, M., & Elrick, J. (2021). How COVID-19 may alleviate the multiple marginalization of racialized migrant workers. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 44(5), 851–863. https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2020.1842900
This article shows how many low skilled migrant workers in the agricultural & care work sectors in countries of the Global North experience marginalization due to their overlapping social positions of #race, #gender, ascribed #SkillLevel, & #LegalStatus. It argues that the COVID-19 pandemic promoted a revaluation of the legal statuses of “essential” migrant workers & thereby represented a small step toward reducing their marginalization.
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Schönwälder, K. (2004). Why Germany’s guestworkers were largely Europeans: The selective principles of post-war labour recruitment policy. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 27(2), 248–265. doi:10.1080/0141987042000177324
This article shows how Germany practiced a racist immigration policy in the post-war period. In spite of massive labor recruitment in the 1950s to the 1970s , workers from from Africa & Asia, including Black European citizens, were not welcome and actively excluded. Germany would today be an even more plural society had this not been the case.
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Rau, V. (2024). Philosemitismus. In P. Ullrich, S. Arnold, A. Danilina, K. Holz, U. Jensen, I. Seidel, et al. (Eds.), Was ist Antisemitismus? Begriffe und Definitionen von Judenfeindschaft (pp. 57-62 ). Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag. doi:10.5771/9783835386587-57
The book "Was ist Antisemitismus" explores the complex phenomenon of antisemitism by approaching it from its various definitions. By doing so, it also illuminates the overlaps with #racism & depicts why #antisemitism is but a very specific form of racism.
European perceptions of #Jews & #Muslim tainted by #antisemitism & #AntiMuslimRacism have historically shaped European identities & are continuing to do so in the present. With the ongoing Israel-Gaza war, racist & antisemitic codes shaping European discourses on Muslims & Jews enforcing exclusive Christian-European identities have become overt & are rapidly gaining social acceptability. This research shows how cultural & political alliances between Jews & Muslims in everyday life strengthen & promote autonomous narratives highlighting the diversity and complexity of Muslim & Jewish perspectives while challenging the monolithic Othering of “the Jew” & “the Muslim” as well as the racialized religious classification at its core.
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Lanari, E. (2023). Latina M(other)work against racism: living with legal precarity in suburban Atlanta. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 46(2), 316-337. doi:10.1080/01419870.2022.2110382
This article follows Latina mothers in suburban Atlanta as they grapple with intersecting forms of #racism & #exclusion, including #segregation of their children in underfunded schools, discourses stereotyping them as uneducated parents, & everyday racialization as undocumented migrants. In spite of these experiences, the women derived a sense of empowerment from becoming involved in their children’s schooling, & sought to transform schools into counter-spaces of sanctuary & community support.