Social Science Discrimination & Race Relations
Migration and Racialization in Times of “Crisis”
The Making of Crises and their Effects
- Publisher
- Les Presses de l'Université d'Ottawa/University of Ottawa Press
- Initial publish date
- May 2025
- Category
- Discrimination & Race Relations, Emigration & Immigration, Activism & Social Justice, Indigenous Studies, Black Studies (Global), Minority Studies
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780776641706
- Publish Date
- May 2025
- List Price
- $71.95
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780776641713
- Publish Date
- May 2025
- List Price
- $41.95
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780776641737
- Publish Date
- May 2025
- List Price
- $31.99
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Description
Modern history is marked by a relentless sequence of upheavals—health, ecological, financial, humanitarian, and beyond. Far from being temporary disruptions, these events reveal a paradox: they are not anomalies, but enduring features of a system governed through perpetual instability. This form of governance sustains and reinforces racial and patriarchal capitalism.
Examining the mechanisms of crisis sheds light on the necropolitics of power—the ways states exert control over life itself. The language of crisis often obscures the systemic oppression underlying these events, legitimizing the erosion of rights and freedoms while intensifying surveillance, profiling, and arbitrary arrests. Black and racialized people, Indigenous communities, as well as refugees and migrants are frequently among those most impacted.
Through an analysis of diverse examples—healthcare, migration, Indigenous rights, academic freedom, and Islamophobia—this work delves into the construction and rhetoric of “crisis.” It explores how populist and supremacist ideologies shape public discourse and perpetuate patterns of visibility and ignorance, with profound sociological effects on marginalized communities.
The English and French editions, each with different content and authors, complete one another.
About the authors
Leila Benhadjoudja's profile page
Christina Clark-Kazak is an associate professor of public and international affairs at the University of Ottawa.
Christina Clark-Kazak's profile page
Professeure agrégée à l’École de service social de l’Université d’Ottawa. Ses champs de recherche sont les migrations, les relations interethniques, l’action publique en matière de migrations et d’éducation, et les méthodologies de recherche.
Stéphanie Garneau's profile page
Tahseen Chowdury's profile page
Yacout El Abboubi's profile page
Maritza Felices-Luna's profile page
Valentina Glockner's profile page
Tatiana Llagumo's profile page
Ricardo-Muniz Trejo's profile page
Chiedza Pasipanodya's profile page
Manuel Salamanca Cardona's profile page
Penelope Van Tuyl's profile page
Excerpt: 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)
The pandemic, which represents “an organic crisis of capitalism” (McKay, 2023), underscored the need to question the notion of crisis, and more specifically its effects on marginalized, migrant and racialized populations. Indeed, while the world was living through the rhythm of this crisis, other “crises” of different magnitudes were increasing or recurring in the four corners of the globe: political, social and economic crisis in Venezuela; “security” crisis (Grinand, 2021) in Haiti; “mental health” crisis (Colly, 2021) in Lebanon; never-ending migration crises (Carastathis et al 2018; Crawley 2016; Jeandesboz and Pallister-Wilkins 2016), whether in Greece, on the Polish border, in the Mediterranean, in Calais and the English Channel, in Venezuela, or on the roads of Central and South America; an anti-gas pipeline blockade crisis in Canada; economic and humanitarian crises in Afghanistan and Yemen; climate crises; “academic freedom crisis” in the United States, Canada and France.
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