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Social Science Discrimination & Race Relations

Migration and Racialization in Times of “Crisis”

The Making of Crises and their Effects

edited by Leila Benhadjoudja, Christina Clark-Kazak & Stéphanie Garneau

contributions by Brad Blitz, Magalie Civil, Elaine Chase, Theresa Cheng, Tahseen Chowdury, Yacout El Abboubi, Maritza Felices-Luna, Walter Flores, Valentina Glockner, Marina Gomá, Tatiana Llagumo, Ricardo-Muniz Trejo, Chiedza Pasipanodya, Manuel Salamanca Cardona, Penelope Van Tuyl, Martha Alexandra Vargas Aguirre, Gina Vukojević, Ian Warwick, Deborah Zion & Jennifer Allsopp

Publisher
Les Presses de l'Université d'Ottawa/University of Ottawa Press
Initial publish date
May 2025
Category
Discrimination & Race Relations, Minority Studies, Emigration & Immigration, Black Studies (Global), Indigenous Studies, Activism & Social Justice
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780776641706
    Publish Date
    May 2025
    List Price
    $71.95
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780776641713
    Publish Date
    May 2025
    List Price
    $41.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780776641737
    Publish Date
    May 2025
    List Price
    $95.97

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A critical analysis of modern history highlights the sequence of crises and their permanence. This permanence reveals a paradox: the repetition of crises (health, ecological, financial, humanitarian, refugee, etc.) shows that the state of non-crisis does not really exist, and that “crisis” refers rather to a stable phenomenon of “government by crisis,” enabling the maintenance and reproduction of racial and patriarchal capitalism.
An analysis of the process of crisis makes visible the necropolitics of power, the control exercised by states over the very possibility of life. From this point of view, the grammar of crisis serves to silence the structures of oppression at the root of “crises,” if only to legitimize the violation of rights and freedoms and the reinforcement of surveillance, profiling and arbitrary arrests.. Issues of which black and racialized people, indigenous communities and refugees and migrants are often the first to bear the brunt.
Based on the analysis of a plurality of “crises”—health, migration, aboriginal, academic freedom, Islam, etc.—taking place in different socio-historical contexts, this book explores the manufacture of “crisis” and its grammar. It does so particularly in terms of populist and supremacist ideologies, as well as their sociological effects “of visibility and ignorance” on migrant, black, racialized and indigenous people.
The English and French editions, each with different content and authors, complete one another.

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