Arab others at European borders: racializing religion and refugees along the<i>Balkan Route</i>

Rexhepi, Piro

doi:10.1080/01419870.2017.1415455

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“…In Germany, this can be exemplified in stereotypes and discrimination of Rom:nja and Sinti:zze based on demonizing-eroticizing ideas linked to musicality, permissiveness, and crime, while Muslims are constructed and discriminated as being the counterpart to the ‘West,’ lacking secularism and women’s rights, and being associated with a cultural threat or terror attacks ( Arndt, 2017 ). This association is reflected in corresponding stereotypes ( Rexhepi, 2018 ; Fröhlich and Schulte, 2019 ).…”

Section: Different Forms Of Racism Within Europementioning

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Racism in Europe: Characteristics and Intersections With Other Social Categories

2022

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Concerning race and its intertwinements with gender, sexual orientation, class, accents, or ability there is a scarcity of social psychological research in Europe. With an intersectional approach studying racism in Europe it is possible to detect specific experiences of discrimination. The prevalent understanding of European racism is connected to migration from the former colonies to the European metropoles and the post-Second-World-War immigration of ‘guest workers.’ Thus, the focus of this research is on work-related discrimination. Against the background of a short historical review, we present the results of the few existing studies on intersectional discrimination within the labor market in Europe and discuss their implications. The pattern of findings is more complex than the assumption that individuals belonging to two or more marginalized social categories are always the most discriminated ones. Gender, sexual orientation, and origin rather interact with the specific job context. These interactions determine whether minority individuals are discriminated against or even preferred over individuals belonging to the majority group. We argue that considering the stereotype content model and social-identity theory helps to structure the sometimes contradictory results of intersectionality research. Therefore, the review presents new perspectives on racism in Europe based on current research, develops hypotheses on the interplay of intersecting identities, and identifies four novel research questions based on racist attributions considering situational variables: These are the role of concrete job contexts in explaining (no) discrimination, the influence of different stereotypes regarding marginalized groups, the explanatory value of sexual orientation as well as class or socioeconomic-status and age in terms of some patterns of results.

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Racism in Europe: Characteristics and Intersections With Other Social Categories

2022

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“…The EU has externalised its border policies and responsibilities to countries outside of its external borders (Norman 2020), including South East Europe which it sees as the 'Western Balkans' a policy area to which initiatives, such as border security externalisation, Frontex cooperation and additional funding for migration issues, are diffused and implemented. Such cooperation is seen in broad terms as a part of the EU integration process (Geiger 2016;Rexhepi 2018) in Serbia, Bosnia, North Macedonia, Kosovo and Albania, and prior to its accession, Croatia.…”

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Becoming a Smuggler: Migration and Violence at EU External Borders

2021

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Migrants' involvement in smuggling increases alongside restricted cross-border movement and violent borders, yet this dynamic is usually examined from migrants' position as clients. In this article, we move away from migrants and smugglers as two separate roles and question migrants' aspirations to and experiences of resorting to smuggling networks as workers in the context of EU land borders, where direct violence is used daily to fight cross-border crime. By doing so, we move further the examination of fluid relations in smuggling provisions and the way they are intertwined with care and exploitation, as shaped and circumscribed by violent borders. The article illustrates the intersections between border violence and migrants' active involvement in smuggling by drawing on the case study of an anonymised Border Town and multi-site, multi-author fieldwork from Serbia and Bosnia. By questioning migrants' experiences of shifting roles from clients to service providers, and by taking into account their work in smuggling provision, we show that, in a situation of protracted vulnerability orchestrated by border violence, state and law enforcement, the categories -"migrant" and "smugglers" -can blur.

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“…In the case of Bulgaria or Hungary for instance, as in the case of Romania that you raise above, the attack by the far right on racialized and impoverished communities has gone hand in hand with the attack on 'gender ideologies.' The merging of liberal and right wing with the EU bordering and securitization platforms in post-socialist spaces has managed to create serious divisions in forging intersectional and international solidarities (Rexhepi 2018b). This is not to say they don't exist.…”

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Connecting the "posts" to confront racial capitalism's coloniality

Tudor¹,

Rexhepi²

2021

Postcolonial and Postsocialist Dialogues

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This chapter is a conversation on the coloniality of racial capitalism in contemporary post-socialist politics. Specifically, our dialogue examines the contradictions and challenges of the post-socialist position within transnational anti-racist solidarity in the face of emboldened structural and situational forms of violence that have come to dominate formerly socialist spaces. Moving through queer, trans and decolonial interventions in seeking to unsettle coloniality's posts, in the first part we explore how the temporalities the 'post' prefix not only conceals the connections and continuities between colonial and cold war projects with contemporary racial capitalism but it also furthers a colorblind narrative of Europeanness that seeks to recruit the post-socialist subject in the ongoing racial, classed and gendered (geo) politics of EU borderization. In the second half, we discuss how these forms of postsocialist theorization have frequently contributed to the contradictions between the aspirational whiteness of the fascist movements in Romania, Croatia and Bulgaria on the one hand and the precarious position of post-socialist labor migrants in the EU. Finally, in the last section we reflect on the possibilities of transnational anti-fascist and anti-racist alignments that could confront racial capitalism's coloniality. Alyosxa:A decade ago, I first suggested to differentiate between racism and what I call 'migratism' to analyse the complex nexus of racialization and migration in postcolonial Europe. Since then, I have published quite a bit on the topic and its challenges and controversies (e.g. Tudor 2017a/b, 2018a). My insistence that not all migration-based discrimination can be called racism but that whiteness -semiperipheral East European whiteness for that matter -needs to be reflected upon critically, has been met with vehement critique. People often bemoan that I would take away 'racism' as a word to name the discrimination against East Europeans (who implicitly or explicitly are imagined as racially homogenous = white in these accounts). It is the affective anxiety that is bewildering to me -the idea that harm is done to white East Europeans when the discrimination against them/us is not called 'racism', the idea that it was Black feminism or Critical Whiteness Studies that had taken something away. Floya Anthias and Nira Yuval Davis in an article published as early as 1983 claim: "The notion of 'black women' as delineating the boundaries of the alternative feminist movement to white feminism leaves non-British non-black women (like us -a Greek-Cypriot and an Israeli-Jew) unaccounted for politically" (Anthias and Yuval-Davis 1983, 63). These approaches alternate in their argumentation between calling for inclusion of white migratised women into the group of people This is an Accepted Manuscript of a book chapter published by Routledge in Koobak, Redi, Tlostanova, Suruchi, (eds.), Postcolonial and Postsocialist Dialogues Intersections, Opacities,

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Arab others at European borders: racializing religion and refugees along theBalkan Route

Cited by 55 publications

References 29 publications

Racism in Europe: Characteristics and Intersections With Other Social Categories

Racism in Europe: Characteristics and Intersections With Other Social Categories

Becoming a Smuggler: Migration and Violence at EU External Borders

Connecting the "posts" to confront racial capitalism's coloniality

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