Citation

Nowicka M. Ethn. Racial Stud. 2018; 41(5): 824-841.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2018, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

10.1080/01419870.2017.1302093

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Thinking of racism through the lens of its geographies and temporality - a transnational lens, as I understand it - is productive for our understanding of the current process of social integration of immigrants in European cities. I argue that an interactive model of racism can help us understand the spread (and revival) of racism in Europe, and develop a new take on intersections of racism and immigration. Using the example of the Polish "post-enlargement" immigration to England, I scrutinize how racism is altered through social networks spanning localities within and across national borders. I demonstrate how the research participants incorporate, reproduce, and transform racism present in the British multicultural public space into a cultural repertoire (habitus) they internalized before migration. I argue that racism is a transnational outcome of ongoing negotiations between past and current experiences, and between parties in two or more geographical locations.

Language: en

Keywords

Eastern Europe; habitus; migration; Racism; transnationalism; United Kingdom