Journal
IDENTITIES-GLOBAL STUDIES IN CULTURE AND POWER
Volume 22, Issue 6, Pages 635-652Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC
DOI: 10.1080/1070289X.2014.950974
Keywords
racism; islamophobia; gender; xenophobia; migration; intersectionality
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- Spain's Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad [SEJ2007/6379, FEM2011-26210, FEM20/1002/E, SEJ2007-30782-E, FEM2010-10702-E]
- Xunta de Galicia [CN2011/03]
- FEDER
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The concept of racism' has faced many difficulties in migration studies. Depending on definitions, islamophobia is a form either of religious discrimination or of racism. The same is true in contemporary debates in Europe about xenophobia against immigrants from the Global South. This article provides an alternative way of thinking about racism and its relationship with questions of intersectionality and discusses the relationship of these issues to migration theory. In the first part, we discuss intersectionality in relation to Fanon's definition of racism. Then, we establish a dialogue between the work of de Sousa Santos and Fanon that could enrich our understanding of intersectionality in the framework of modernity and the capitalist/imperial/patriarchal/racial colonial world-system. Finally, we analyse this discussion's implications for migration theory, highlighting how migration studies tend to reproduce a northern-centric social science view of the world that comes from the experience of others in the zone of being.
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