Ethnic and Racial StudiesPub Date : 2026-01-01Epub Date: 2025-11-05DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2025.2570482
David Rigby, Michael H Esposito, Tyson H Brown, Hedwig Lee, Sierra Clark
{"title":"Sociohistorical contexts of racial violence: sundown towns and the durability of racialized public space.","authors":"David Rigby, Michael H Esposito, Tyson H Brown, Hedwig Lee, Sierra Clark","doi":"10.1080/01419870.2025.2570482","DOIUrl":"10.1080/01419870.2025.2570482","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Scholarly work on racial violence has illustrated the diverse effects of historical practices like slavery, lynching, and redlining upon contemporary racial inequalities. We extend this work by considering the durable legacy of <i>sundown towns</i> - an understudied package of legal and conventional practices restricting the mobility of Black communities. We argue that the racialized organization of public space that was produced via sundown practices is expressed today in racialized engagement with public space and test this using cell phone location data describing public park use across Missouri. Here, we find that racial disparities in park visitation are excebrated in former sundown town areas - with already disparate park vistiation rates between majority Black and majoirty White communities widening significantly when the destination park is within the bounds of a former sundown area. Overall, our findings illustrate the diverse and persistent ways that historical regimes of racial control shape even mundane behaviors in contemporary society.</p>","PeriodicalId":48345,"journal":{"name":"Ethnic and Racial Studies","volume":"49 2","pages":"480-495"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13309204/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148346814","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"National populists of Christian Europe, unite! Exploring civilizationist alliances in the British far right","authors":"Rafał Soborski, Michał P. Garapich, Anna Jochymek","doi":"10.1080/01419870.2025.2554752","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2025.2554752","url":null,"abstract":"As national populism adapts to a globalized world, civilizationism is emerging as a key frame for inclusion and exclusion. This article examines how British national-populist actors – Tommy Robinson, Britain First and Reform – engage Polish migrants by recasting them as defenders of Christianity and Western civilization. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, interviews with activists and primary material available online, we show how Polish nationalist mythology is mobilized to construct Poles not as immigrants undermining the nation, but as historic allies fighting shared enemies: Islam, liberal elites and globalism. Civilizationist narratives allow national populists to reframe belonging beyond ethnic nativity, building transnational solidarities based on myth, memory and imagined cultural proximity. The case of Polish migrants in Britain shows that civilizationism is not a secondary feature but a central engine of national populism’s evolving transnational strategies, a force that will define the contours of political identity across Europe in the years to come.","PeriodicalId":48345,"journal":{"name":"Ethnic and Racial Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":"1-19"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147899607","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The power of sponsorship: power and moral action in private refugee resettlement","authors":"Emily Regan Wills, Patti Tamara Lenard","doi":"10.1080/01419870.2025.2474624","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2025.2474624","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48345,"journal":{"name":"Ethnic and Racial Studies","volume":"48 12","pages":"2476-2492"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147888134","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Superdiversity, the “new bespokism”, and hierarchies of belonging: the Homes for Ukraine scheme in the UK","authors":"Mette Louise Berg, Silke Zschomler","doi":"10.1080/01419870.2025.2461252","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2025.2461252","url":null,"abstract":"This article focuses on the proliferation of migration channels and immigration statuses as a constitutive characteristic of superdiversity [Vertovec, Steven. 2007. “Super-diversity and its Implications.” Ethnic and Racial Studies 30 (6): 1024–1054. https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870701599465]. It offers critical reflections on the UK’s “new bespokism” (Tomlinson 2023) through the lens of the “Homes for Ukraine” scheme (HfU), a hosting scheme for Ukrainians fleeing their country after Russia’s 2022 invasion. The scheme has created new geographies of support in a period of increasing economic inequality and bordering. HfU is one way the state organises racialised, classed, and gendered “hierarchies of belonging” [Back, Les, and Shamser Sinha. 2018. Migrant City, Routledge Advances in Ethnography. London, NY: Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group], adding further layers of complexity, fractioning, and inequalities to the already stratified landscape of the UK’s immigration statuses. HfU may appear as the friendly face of the UK’s “brutal migration milieu” [Hall, Suzanne M. 2017. “Mooring “Super-Diversity” to a Brutal Migration Milieu.” Ethnic and Racial Studies 40 (9): 1562–1573. https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2017.1300296], but it contains its own contradictions in its exclusionary remit. The article is based on qualitative research in a London borough and Oxford/shire.","PeriodicalId":48345,"journal":{"name":"Ethnic and Racial Studies","volume":"48 9","pages":"1804-1822"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0011-43F4-E","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147880493","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"British children associated with ISIS in camps in North-East Syria: counter-terrorism, security and children’s rights concerns in repatriation decision-making","authors":"Madeline‐Sophie Abbas","doi":"10.1080/01419870.2024.2431163","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2024.2431163","url":null,"abstract":"Drawing empirical insights from NGOs working on statelessness, repatriation, and children’s rights relating to children residing in al-Hol and Roj camps in North-East Syria, I explore critiques of UK government decision-making concerning repatriation amid unprecedented use of citizenship deprivation powers affecting ISIS-associated children which has enforced parent-child separation. A policy gap is created where children are unable to be returned with caregivers if citizenship is deprived. Adoption of a case-by-case approach rather than coherent policy response to repatriation prolongs children’s detainment within insecure camps. Using a critical race lens, I advance theoretical understanding of spatio-temporal logics of (in)securitisation within the context of counter-terrorism policies affecting British children in NES camps through convergence of violent conflict, citizenship deprivation, and state failure to repatriate. A children’s right approach to repatriation decision-making is required to ensure British children’s safe return and right to family.","PeriodicalId":48345,"journal":{"name":"Ethnic and Racial Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":"1-19"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-12-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147921690","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ethnic and Racial StudiesPub Date : 2024-10-25eCollection Date: 2025-01-01DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2024.2404485
Mira Burmeister-Rudolph
{"title":"Reproducing and reformulating categories of skill in regional and global migration governance: evidence from India and Bangladesh.","authors":"Mira Burmeister-Rudolph","doi":"10.1080/01419870.2024.2404485","DOIUrl":"10.1080/01419870.2024.2404485","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Approximately one-third of the world's 169 million migrant workers come from the Asia and Pacific region, primarily working in temporary, low-wage jobs in the Gulf, where they face human and labor rights issues. In 2003, 12 Asian migrant-origin states formed the Colombo Process to address these labor concerns. This article examines and contrasts two major emigrant-origin states' - India and Bangladesh -behavior in the Colombo Process, a regional consultative process, and other multilateral migration governance fora, focusing on the social construction of skills. Both countries inherited a colonial legal system of emigration regulation which distinguished emigrants into \"high-\" and \"low-skill\" categories, which India continues to reproduce, while Bangladesh aims to reformulate their categorization. This article investigates the how, where, and when of the countries' emigrant categorization processes by tracing the categories' origins, their reproduction, and reformulation. This article highlights the significant role migrant-origin states play in the politics of skill.</p>","PeriodicalId":48345,"journal":{"name":"Ethnic and Racial Studies","volume":"48 4","pages":"763-788"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11789704/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143190935","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Who counts as a stateless person? Nation-statist logics and the liabilities of potential citizenship elsewhere","authors":"Amanda R. Cheong","doi":"10.1080/01419870.2024.2404482","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2024.2404482","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48345,"journal":{"name":"Ethnic and Racial Studies","volume":"48 4","pages":"883-905"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147901483","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Socialization, citizenship and the electoral integration of refugees: evidence from Sweden","authors":"Pieter Bevelander, Derek S. Hutcheson, Haodong Qi","doi":"10.1080/01419870.2024.2398651","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2024.2398651","url":null,"abstract":"This article seeks to fill a research gap by analysing refugees’ voting behavior, using Sweden (known for high refugee immigration, relatively liberal enfranchisement rules, and comprehensive elect...","PeriodicalId":48345,"journal":{"name":"Ethnic and Racial Studies","volume":"28 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2024-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142268441","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Police’s attribution of racial inequality in the criminal justice system: a case of non-binary color-blindness","authors":"Jungmyung Kim","doi":"10.1080/01419870.2024.2399731","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2024.2399731","url":null,"abstract":"This study critically examines how police officers attribute racial disparities within the US criminal justice system. For this inquiry, the study used in-depth interviews with 65 police officers f...","PeriodicalId":48345,"journal":{"name":"Ethnic and Racial Studies","volume":"19 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2024-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142250899","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Geographies of race in Poland and Central and Eastern Europe","authors":"Bolaji Balogun, Margaret Amaka Ohia-Nowak","doi":"10.1080/01419870.2024.2400301","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2024.2400301","url":null,"abstract":"This article is a discipline-defining agenda. It addresses the oversight of Geographies of race in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and explores geography’s potential contributions to the unfolding...","PeriodicalId":48345,"journal":{"name":"Ethnic and Racial Studies","volume":"165 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2024-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142250900","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}