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Comparing the racialization of Central-East European migrants in Japan and the UK
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Drnovšek Zorko, Špela and Debnár, Miloš (2021) Comparing the racialization of Central-East European migrants in Japan and the UK. Comparative Migration Studies, 9 (1). 30. doi:10.1186/s40878-021-00239-z ISSN 2214-594X.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40878-021-00239-z
Abstract
The article deploys the lens of the race-migration nexus (Erel et al., Ethnic and Racial Studies 39:1339–1360, 2016) to compare the racialization of migrants in the UK and Japan. It draws on qualitative data on the experiences of Central-East European (CEE) migrants in the two countries to unpack how whiteness is constructed in relation to different histories and patterns of immigration in each national context. While CEE migrants in Japan benefit from being perceived as implicitly white and Western ‘foreigners’, their whiteness represents a form of enduring exclusion from the ethno-nationalist Japanese society. In the UK, changing political contexts and internal European hierarchies of whiteness contribute to CEE migrants’ ambiguous position in an increasingly anti-migrant society. By comparing the mechanisms of racialization in each country through the analytics of visibility and exclusion, the article furthers ongoing debates about the intersections of race and migration. It furthermore extends the comparative analysis of whiteness to a non-Western setting, making a significant contribution to the study of local/global articulations of race.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||||||
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races | ||||||||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Sociology | ||||||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Whites -- Race identity, Racism | ||||||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Comparative Migration Studies | ||||||||||||
| Publisher: | Springer | ||||||||||||
| ISSN: | 2214-594X | ||||||||||||
| Official Date: | 14 July 2021 | ||||||||||||
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| Volume: | 9 | ||||||||||||
| Number: | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Number of Pages: | 17 | ||||||||||||
| Article Number: | 30 | ||||||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1186/s40878-021-00239-z | ||||||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 9 August 2022 | ||||||||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 18 August 2022 | ||||||||||||
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