A tale of four cities: the boundaries of blackness for Ethiopian immigrants in Washington, DC, Tel Aviv, Rome, and Melbourne

Racial urbanities: towards a global cartography

“…The segregation of Roma in Europe provides one of the key lenses through which this logic can be seen historically as well as in the present. Migration, as Trujillo-Pagán (2018) shows in her article, provides another, similar lense. Currently, racism is far from a 'hidden secret' but a central component of populist mobilisations and some electoral success of political parties across the West who rarely shy away from virulently articulating it (Farris, 2017;Narayan, 2017;Virdee & McGeever, 2017).…”

“…Like the examples mentioned above, the papers collected here are a further step towards building the global cartography of racial urbanities. This issue covers not only cities in Europe (Gressgård, 2017) and North America (Mele, 2017;Trujillo-Pagán, 2018;Byfield, 2018), but also Africa (Marr, 2017;Trujillo-Pagán, 2018), Latin America (Guimarães, 2017) as well as the Middle East (Trujillo-Pagán, 2018). These studies provide a rich range of examples and analyses that we hope will generate further debate and research on racial urbanities.…”

‘Like pouring fuel on a fire’: Perspectives on family and domestic violence among Ethiopian women in Melbourne

“…Threats of deportation, social isolation, and financial coercion are mentioned by the women who participated in this study. These are aggravated by structural issues such as immigration regulations which place immigrant women at increased risk of DV (Burman & Chantler, 2005; Maher & Segrave, 2018; Vaughan et al, 2016). Similarly, the immigration regulations of some western nations, including Australia, prohibit women who arrived via spousal visas from acquiring residence permits and accessing public benefits for a particular period of time (Vaughan et al, 2016).…”

“…These are aggravated by structural issues such as immigration regulations which place immigrant women at increased risk of DV (Burman & Chantler, 2005; Maher & Segrave, 2018; Vaughan et al, 2016). Similarly, the immigration regulations of some western nations, including Australia, prohibit women who arrived via spousal visas from acquiring residence permits and accessing public benefits for a particular period of time (Vaughan et al, 2016). This, in turn, increases women's vulnerability to potential abusers who take advantage of this dependency (Zannettino, 2012).…”

“…Although immigrant and minority women are considered to be at a relatively increased risk of DV compared with non-immigrants (Liang et al, 2005; Ogunsiji et al, 2012), research on DV among these groups has several limitations. Apart from being inadequate (Ghafournia & Easteal, 2019; Rees & Pease, 2007; Vaughan et al, 2016), the body of research on DV among immigrants and refugees is limited in scope. In particular, the research tends to focus on identifying the barriers migrant women face in help-seeking, factors that increase the risks of experiencing DV and their experiences of marginalisation and victimisation (Maher & Segrave, 2018; Ogunsiji et al, 2012; Zannettino, 2012).…”