1st Edition

Racial Nationalisms Borders, Refugees and the Cultural Politics of Belonging

Edited By Sivamohan Valluvan, Virinder S. Kalra Copyright 2021
148 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

148 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

148 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book addresses the centrality of race and racism in consolidating the nationalisms currently prominent in Brexit Britain. Particular attention is given to the issues of refugees, borders and bordering, and the wider forms of nativist and anti- Muslim sentiments that anchor today’s increasingly populist forms of nationalist politics. It is argued that the forms of scapegoating and alarmism... Read more

Introduction

Sivamohan Valluvan and Virinder S. Kalra

1. Deportation, racism and multi-status Britain: immigration control and the production of race in the present

Luke de Noronha

2. More in common: the domestication of misogynist white supremacy and the assassination of Jo Cox

Hannah Jones

3. Conflating the Muslim refugee and the terror suspect: responses to the Syrian refugee "crisis" in Brexit Britain

Madeline-Sophie Abbas

4. Care and cruelty in Chios: the "refugee crisis" and the limits of Europe

Malcolm James

5. Racism and Brexit: notes towards an antiracist populism

Ben Pitcher

6. "I feel English as fuck": translocality and the performance of alternative identities through rap

Richard Bramwell and James Butterworth

Biography

Sivamohan Valluvan is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick, UK. His book Clamour of Nationalism was published in 2019.

Virinder S. Kalra is Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick, UK. He is the author of multiple monographs, including Beyond Religion in India and Pakistan (co-authored with Tej Purewal, 2019) and Sacred and Secular Musics (2016).