This article intends to reflect on the rhetoric connected with neo-racism and islamophobia, based on the experience and perception of prejudice, stereotypes and discrimination amongst Somali refugees ...and asylum seekers in Naples. This was achieved by matching the viewpoints of those women having been in the area since longer with those of the newcomers. This research, enacted by an anthropological approach and started in 2018, was implemented through participant observation, thematic interviews to the representatives of the main local Somali associations and by interviewing the female asylum seekers and refugees in depth.
This chapter explores the ways in which border imperialism, a concept widely attributed to Harsha Walia (2013), interacts with international postsecondary remote learning contexts to open ...opportunities to both extend and resist border imperialism. Historical and present contexts of border imperialism centered on Canada are consulted, uncovering a connection between technologies of labor and colonial power dynamics. Both temporal contexts serve to highlight the ways in which technologies of labor create a colonial power dynamic enacted through the usage of borders as imperialist tools. The body of literature concerning border imperialism is then reviewed to discern how remote learning contexts facilitate both resistance to and expansion of border imperialism. It is found that these contexts do support narratives of resistance to bodily racism and temporo-economic imperialism, however, in so doing also support neo-racism and unjust soft power dynamics within internationalization. The opportunities for resistance and expansion of border imperialism are then consolidated in pursuit of an ethical path forward with respect to the usage of new remote learning technologies in the context of internationalization.
The global imaginary contributes to the perpetuation of neo-colonial and neoliberal mentalities, which reinforce the political, cultural, and social dominance over international students. Through an ...exploration guided by interrelated theories of agency and transnational social fields, this study employs a narrative inquiry methodology with a constructivist research approach to comprehend and investigate the agency of international graduate students of Color amidst transnational mobility during the COVID-19 pandemic within a four-year public research institution in the United States. The research findings demonstrate that specific contexts and spaces shape the agency of international graduate students and (trans)form their present and future. This article reveals four distinct forms of agency: agency as negotiation in uncertainties, agency as resistance to forms of (neo)racism, agency for personal growth and (trans)formation, and agency within transnational futures.
The research aims to explore the changes of national identity among Chinese international students in the odd social context of the global pandemic. By conducting semi-structured interviews with 10 ...Chinese undergraduate and postgraduate students in a prestigious university located in London, UK, the study provides evidence of Western neo-racism against Chinese students and the rise of Chinese nationalism. More significantly, it is found that Western neo-racism and Chinese nationalism have a push and pull effect on the national identity enhancement of Chinese international students. The participants revealed that bottom-up popular nationalism is more than a shadow of top-down state nationalism in China, and is more influential on students’ national identity formation. The research also discusses the implications of these findings, limitations and future research directions.
El racismo clásico, fundamentado en la discriminación por el color de la piel, se ha transformado. Hoy, lo fenotípico es solo una de las características que presenta el neorracismo. Para las personas ...que lo practican, el color de la piel no resulta tan amenazante como pertenecer a una determinada cultura, tener ciertos rasgos culturales o una religión. Desde esta ideología, la pertenencia a una cultura se vuelve peligrosa cuando los individuos han vivido, entre otras, experiencias violentas que los obligan a marcharse de sus territorios. En este artículo, con base en una investigación etnográfica realizada en 2019 sobre experiencias de vida de adolescentes desplazados por el conflicto armado que habitan en Santa Marta (Colombia), se muestra cómo, para estos individuos que han sufrido el conflicto armado, el desplazamiento forzado los convierte en las instituciones educativas a las que llegan para buscar comenzar otra vida— en objeto de burla, discriminación, estigmatización y fuente de amenaza para quienes practican esta nueva forma de racismo.
In Australia, while there is no doubt that we have seen newly ethnicised and/or racialised groups arriving and new communities forming, what is new and what is old about the racisms that mar the ...Australian social landscape is not clear. And it is definitely worth thinking about. The author argues that Australia has seen a shift from 'numerological racism' to 'existential racism.' He then explores the form in which Australian racism is delivered, citing Pauline Hanson as an example. He then discusses 'the removal of the space of commonality' as a new development in Australian racism. Finally, he discusses the rise of what he calls 'racist anti-racism' within some sections of racialised ethnic groups in Australia. Adapted from the source document.
What should we make of the recent neo-racist turn in Brazil - the eruption of anti-Black and anti-Indigenous hate-speech on the part of senior government officials, including President Jair ...Bolsonaro, combined with institutional attacks on the multi-culturalist consensus of the last two decades? While symptomatic of Bolsonarismo's determination to roll back the previous forty years of social justice reforms, the far Right's recent attacks on multiculturalism and the collapse of earlier consensual models of "race" and nation have both exposed a deeper underlying continuity in the racialisation of Brazilian society, above all its class character - something the Black movement's contemporary focus on the affirmative action agenda has failed to address. The new racism should really be understood as the Neoliberal project's reassertion of the particular historical form of racial capitalism that Bolsonarismo was appointed to reinstate, which routinely disposes of Brazil's Afro-descendant majority as an "edge population" straddling the frontiers between inclusion and exclusion. If there is to be any prospect of rebuilding an opposition to Neoliberalism that can speak to that Black majority, the anti-racist and anti-capitalist struggles must be integrated, and anti-racism must become a priority for the Left, not merely one among many "social justice" causes, but Brazil's national question.
The success of the extreme right in France in the past two decades has not been limited to its electoral rise. A more long-lasting victory has taken place in the ideological field, where the ...discourse of the extreme right now occupies a prominent place in the mainstream liberal democratic agenda. Increasingly, its ideas are seen in the media and in the platforms of mainstream parties as 'common sense' or at least acceptable. The growing acceptance of this 'common sense' is the result of very carefully crafted strategies put in place by extreme-right thinkers since the 1980s. For over three decades now, in order to change perceptions and renew extreme right-wing ideology, New Right think tanks such as the French GRECE believed it was necessary to borrow the tactics of the left and, more specifically, the Gramscian concept of hegemony: cultural power must precede political power. With the use of contemporary examples, Mondon's article demonstrates the continuing impact these ideas have had on the Front national and French politics and society, and how this change originated in the association of populist rhetoric with the neo-racist stigmatization of the Other.
Through 24 semi-structured interviews with non-native English-speaking (NNES) international graduate students, this study explores their academic English socialization experiences in Taiwan guided by ...Lave and Wenger’s (1991) community of practice framework and Lee and Rice’s (2007) concept of neo-racism. Throughout a complicated academic English socialization process, newcomers became increasingly competent in communicating with the university community in English. However, this process was not unproblematic; challenges included differential welcome and treatment, a relative lack of interaction with Taiwanese peers or students outside their own ethnic groups, and negative perceptions of their accents and non-fluent English. Findings suggest a need to stimulate deeper reflection on international students’ experiences in host communities, where they are increasingly the targets of nationality-based discrimination.
This article maps the trajectory of Indian migration broadly, and specifically to Australia, to first highlight the heterogeneity of the Indian diaspora, and second, to comprehend the impact of this ...heterogeneity on the homeland alongside recent events involving the diaspora, such as the highly publicised attacks on Indian students in Melbourne in 2009-2010. While there is abundant literature on the history of Indian migration, as well as on diasporic identity formations in a globalising context, the Indian-Australian migrant subject is a recent subject of media and academic interest. The 'new racisms' perspective is used to examine the mediation of the student attack issue through the comments of 'integrated' Indian-Australians in a random sample of Australian media outlets. Feature articles, news items and opinion pieces appearing in the media covering the student attacks are examined for mentions of, and comments from a carefully selected group of professional Indians living in Australia who are often cast as a 'model minority'. Conclusions are then drawn on how the remediation of India and its newly assertive commercial media offered by these comments effectively redraws a nation previously receiving limited coverage (literally and discursively) in Australia. What is significant here is not merely the 'de-wogged' views of a seemingly integrated minority, but also how oppositional readings (by way of diasporic cultural production) signal a way forward for the Indian diaspora's representation in Australia, as well as for its relations with both the home and host societies.
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