Migration and Racialization in Times of Crisis: The Making of Crises and their Effects

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A critical analysis of modern history highlights the sequence of crises and their permanence. This permanence reveals a paradox: the repetition of crises (health, ecological, financial, humanitarian, refugee, etc.) shows that the state of non-crisis does not really exist, and that crisis refers rather to a stable phenomenon of government by crisis (Hage, 205: 145), enabling the maintenance and reproduction of racial and patriarchal capitalism.

We might therefore suggest that an analysis of the process of crisis makes visible the necropolitics of power (Mbembe, 2006), the control exercised by states over the very possibility of life. From this point of view, the grammar of crisis serves to silence the structures of oppression at the root of crises, if only to legitimize the violation of rights and freedoms and the reinforcement of surveillance, profiling and arbitrary arrests (Al-Ali, 2020). Issues of which black and racialized people, indigenous communities and refugees and migrants are often the first to bear the brunt.

Based on the analysis of a plurality of criseshealth, migration, aboriginal, academic freedom, Islam, etc.taking place in different socio-historical contexts, this book explores the manufacture of crisis and its grammar. It does so particularly in terms of populist and supremacist ideologies, as well as their sociological effects of visibility and ignorance (Aguiton et al., 2019:10) on migrant, black, racialized and indigenous people.

This book is twofold: based on the same problematic, an English and a French version are available. The two versions feature different authors and chapters.

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Christina Clark-Kazak (Editor)
Christina Clark-Kazak is Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa, President of the International Association for the Study of Forced Migration and outgoing Editor-in-Chief of Refuge: Canadian Journal on Refugees. She has previously worked for York University, Saint Paul University, the Canadian government and the Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers. She has also served as President of the Canadian Association for Refugee and Forced Migration Studies, Director of York University's Refugee Studies Centre and Associate Dean (Research and Graduate Studies) of York University's bilingual Glendon Campus. Her research interests include age discrimination in migration and development; the political participation of young refugees; and interdisciplinary methodology.

Stphanie Garneau (Editor)
Stphanie Garneau is an Associate Professor at the University of Ottawa's School of Social Work, Director of the Collectif de recherche sur les migrations et le racisme (COMIR) and Co-Director of the Migration, Pluralism and Citizenship Axis at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Citizenship and Minorities (CIRCEM). Her fields of research are migration, racism, public action on migration and education, and research methodologies. She has published articles in various sociology, social work and education journals, and co-edited two books for PUO (Erving Goffman et le travail social, 2017) and PUL (Les jeunes et l'action politique: participation, contestation, rsistance, 2016). Most recently, she co-ordinated a thematic issue entitled Sociologies de la race et racism for the journal Sociologies et Socit. A book on the migration and social classification of Moroccans in Quebec has been accepted and is forthcoming from PUM.

Leila Benhadjoudja (Editor)
Leila Benhadjoudja is an Assistant Professor in the Institute of Feminist and Gender Studies at the University of Ottawa. Her research focuses on Political sociology, Feminist and Gender Theory, Race and Ethnicity as well as Postcolonialism and Cultural Studies.