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The coloniality of distinction: Class, race and whiteness among post-crisis Italian migrants
The Sociological Review ( IF 2.743 ) Pub Date : 2021-02-03 , DOI: 10.1177/0038026120963483
Simone Varriale 1
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This article explores how strategies of class distinction reproduce racialised hierarchies between ‘modern’ and ‘backward’ European populations. Drawing on 57 interviews with Italian migrants who moved to England after the 2008 economic crisis, and combining Bourdieusian class analysis and decolonial critique, the article shows that migrants in different social positions are equally concerned with claiming closeness to the UK’s meritocratic culture and with distancing themselves from Italy’s backwardness. However, they mobilise unequal forms of capital to sustain this claim. More resourceful migrants use economic and cultural capital to demonstrate fit with British culture and to racialise less resourceful co-nationals as too ‘Southern’ to belong. The latter stress self-resilience and Italianness as sources of distinction, but more frequently report exploitation and stigma in the context of insecure professional fields. The article advances research on class, racialisation and European whiteness, unravelling the coloniality of distinction, namely how class helps more resourceful migrants to symbolically claim North European whiteness while displacing ‘race’ – in the forms of laziness, lack of rationality and self-restraint – onto less resourceful migrants. This reveals how, in the post-2008 context, enduring narratives of South–North difference legitimise class inequalities, exploitation and neoliberal forms of self-governance.



中文翻译:

区别的殖民地:危机后意大利移民中的阶级,种族和白人

本文探讨了阶级区分策略如何重现“现代”和“落后”欧洲人口之间的种族等级制度。文章对2008年经济危机后移居英国的意大利移民进行了57次采访,结合布尔迪厄斯阶级分析和殖民主义批评,文章显示,处于不同社会地位的移民同样关心声称自己与英国的精英文化保持亲密关系并与自己疏远来自意大利的落后。但是,他们动员了不平等的资本形式来维持这一主张。更有才华的移民利用经济和文化资本来展示与英国文化的契合度,并且将资源不足的同胞种族化为过于“南方”的民族。后者强调自我复原力和意大利性是与众不同的根源,但更经常地报告在不安全的专业领域中存在剥削和污名。本文将进一步探讨阶级,种族化和欧洲白人的特征,区分的殖民主义,即阶级如何帮助更多机智的移民象征性地宣称北欧白皙,同时将“种族”(以懒惰,缺乏理性和自我约束的形式)转移到资源不足的移民。这揭示了在2008年后的背景下,持久的南北差异叙事如何使阶级不平等,剥削和新自由主义的自治形式合法化。

更新日期:2021-02-03
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