Abstract
The purpose of our article is to examine how current East European migration to the UK has been racialized in immigration policy and tabloid journalism. The state’s immigration policy, we argue, exhibits features of institutionalized racism that implicitly invokes shared whiteness as a basis of racialized inclusion. The tabloids, in contrast, tend toward cultural racism in their coverage of these migrations by explicitly invoking cultural difference as a basis of racialized exclusion. Our analysis focuses on two cohorts of migrants: Hungarians, representing the larger 2004 entrants, and Romanians, representing the smaller 2007 entrants. The processes of racialization we examine in this article reveal degrees of whiteness that give ‘race’ continued currency as an idiom for making sense of these migrations and the migrants that people them.
Translated title of the contribution | The racialisation of the new European migration to the UK |
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Original language | English |
Pages (from-to) | 680-695 |
Number of pages | 16 |
Journal | Sociology |
Volume | 46 |
Issue number | 4 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 15 Aug 2012 |
Structured keywords
- Migration Mobilities Bristol
- Racialization
- Migration
- Europe
- UK
- SPAIS Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship
Keywords
- cultural racism
- immigration policy
- institutionalized racism
- media
- racialization
- whiteness