1st Edition

Neoliberalism, Racialisation and Middling Migrants in Poland

144 Pages
by Routledge

This book analyses the complex relations between racism and neoliberalism in the lives of middling migrants in Poland. Focusing on ‘middling migrants’ – a heterogeneous category of migrants who are neither a highly-paid elite, nor low-paid or low-skilled workers – it offers a novel approach to the manner in which the intricate relationship between racism and neoliberalism plays out in migrants’... Read more

Introduction  1. The Awkward History of Racism and Capitalism  2. Racism, Colonialism and Migration in Poland: Histories, Dependencies, Hierarchies  3. Racialised Encounters: Middling Migrants and the Lived Experiences of Racism  4. Modes of Dealing with Racism: Migrant Subjectivities, Rationalisations and the Logic of Neoliberalism  Conclusions

Biography

Krzysztof Jaskułowski is Professor Sociology at University of Wroclaw, Poland. He is the author of The Everyday Politics of Migration Crisis in Poland: Between Nationalism, Fear and Empathy, and the co-author of The Memory Politics of the Cursed Soldiers in Poland: Authoritarian Nationalism, Hegemony and Emotions.

Marek Pawlak is Associate Professor at the Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, Jagiellonian University, Poland. He is the author of Haunting Futures: Crisis, Migration and Anticipation in Iceland.