This is my country, get out! A color-blind approach to racist nativism

Griffith, Candace

doi:10.1057/s41276-022-00353-8

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“…More recently, participants in the online forum of anti-immigrant organizations use legality as a proxy for race (Bloch, 2014). Even right-wing political organizations whose goals are explicitly racialized, like the National Association for the Advancement of White People (Brooks et al, 2017) or vigilante border groups (Griffith, 2022) use colourblind ideologies to achieve legitimacy. In sum, colourblind ideologies have permeated US immigration law and discourse.…”

Section: Colourblindness In the United States And The Netherlandsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Colourblindness across borders: The de-racialized logics of Dutch and American border agents

Vega,

van der Woude

2023

Theoretical Criminology

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This article illustrates how US Border Patrol agents and Dutch Military and Border Police officers explain racialized border control outcomes, through colourblind ideologies. These ideologies—legalism, criminalization and securitization—function as euphemisms that allow border agents to downplay the importance of immigrants’ race/ethnicity in their decision making and behaviour. Yet, underlying these colourblind ideologies are racialized immigration laws and social constructions that continue to produce group-based inequalities in who is questioned, arrested, detained and removed by border guards. We call for cross-national comparisons of how race/ethnicity is both manifested and concealed in border control. We also suggest the existence of supranational racial frames that protect the status quo in western immigration policies and practices.

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Section: Colourblindness In the United States And The Netherlandsmentioning

confidence: 99%