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East–west inequalities and the ambiguous racialisation of ‘Eastern Europeans’

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Lewicki, Aleksandra·2023·Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
DOI 10.1080/1369183x.2022.2154910
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A growing scholarly literature describes people who moved from Europe’s East to its West as racialised. Others speak of ‘migratization’ or ‘xenophobia’. Many of these contributions have in common that they conceive of discrimination as occurring after migration. What is more, they focus on the attitudinal dimension of ‘prejudice’, as expressed in the media or the narratives of East–West movers themselves. What thereby slips from view is that racism has geopolitical-economic and legal dimensions, and structures life opportunities. This article explores how categories such as ‘Eastern European’ are invoked, deployed and how they are put to work – via policy or the law. The analysis shows that neoliberal policies have attributed a distinctive positionality to ‘Eastern Europeans’ in West European racial hierarchies. I argue that people from Europe’s East are distinctively, yet ambiguously racialised, and discuss facets of this ambiguity. Most notably, they are inferiorised within Europe, but often positioned within global racialised categories of ‘Europeanness’. This racialisation is not a product of twenty-first century mobilities but reflects and reproduces the peripheralisation of Europe’s East. Of course, racialisation shapes everyday lives after migration; yet, it also channels the life opportunities of those born in the East over the course of generations.

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Authors
Lewicki, A.
Affiliations
University of Sussex (GB)
Corresponding author
Lewicki, Aleksandra
Venue
Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
Publisher
Informa UK Limited
Published
2023-01-11
Volume
49
Issue
6
Pages
1481-1499
ISSN
  • 1369-183X (ISSN-L)
  • 1469-9451
DOI
10.1080/1369183x.2022.2154910
OpenAlex
W4319841116
Cited by
136
References
36
Citations by year
2026: 37 · 2025: 42 · 2024: 33 · 2023: 24
FWCI
58.69
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
Locations
  • Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • Sussex Research Online (University of Sussex) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
  • Figshare (submittedVersion, cc-by)
Funders
Research Council of Norway (303219)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Migration, Refugees, and Integration
  • Social Sciences › Demography › Diaspora, migration, transnational identity
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Romani and Gypsy Studies
Keywords
racialization, neoliberalism, racial hierarchy, Europeanness, peripheralization, xenophobia, migrant policy, racism

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