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Socialization, citizenship and the electoral integration of refugees: evidence from Sweden Ethnic and Racial Studies (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Pieter Bevelander, Derek S. Hutcheson, Haodong Qi
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...
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Geographies of race in Poland and Central and Eastern Europe Ethnic and Racial Studies (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2024-09-11 Bolaji Balogun, Margaret Amaka Ohia-Nowak
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...
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Police’s attribution of racial inequality in the criminal justice system: a case of non-binary color-blindness Ethnic and Racial Studies (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2024-09-11 Jungmyung Kim
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...
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Bye bye Moria: escape commons vs policies of military campization Ethnic and Racial Studies (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2024-09-10 Charalampos Tsavdaroglou, Chrysoula Giannopoulou, Yannis Frangopoulos, Panos Hatziprokopiou, Ilektra Kyriazidou, Zacharias Valiantzas
Over the period from 2013 to 2020, the Moria camp in the island of Lesvos became synonymous with the exclusionary border control policies of the Greek state and the European Union. During the summe...
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Gender segregation in the friendship networks of Muslim youth in Germany: the role of chastity norms Ethnic and Racial Studies (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2024-09-10 David Kretschmer
Western Muslim youth engage less in romantic relationships than their non-Muslim peers, an observation usually attributed to chastity norms that oppose Muslim youths’ premarital sexual activity. In...
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Skin color and socioeconomic inequality: the persistence of colorism among black Jamaicans Ethnic and Racial Studies (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2024-09-10 Monique D. A. Kelly
Colorism is an important determiner of life outcomes among Black people. Yet, we know little about how it impacts socioeconomic conditions outside the United States. This study expands the existing...
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The influence of transnational Pentecostal religious beliefs on women’s political participation in Zimbabwe Ethnic and Racial Studies (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2024-09-03 Kuziwakwashe Zigomo
Over recent decades, transnational Pentecostal religious movements have experienced rapid surges in authoritarian regimes which have reported high levels of women’s political participation in sub-S...
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Employment and work intentions of refugee women. Evidence on Syrians in the Netherlands Ethnic and Racial Studies (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2024-08-21 Roos van der Zwan, Frank van Tubergen
This study examines the employment and work intentions of Syrian refugee women in the Netherlands. While earlier studies showed that refugee women have dramatically low labor force participation ra...
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Introduction Ethnic and Racial Studies (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2024-08-11 John Solomos
Published in Ethnic and Racial Studies (Vol. 47, No. 13, 2024)
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“It was like someone was pissin on me in my own home”: experiences of Sinophobia victims during the COVID-19 global pandemic Ethnic and Racial Studies (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2024-08-14 Tina G. Patel
Having seen a rise in the expression of Sinophobia and anti-Chinese/East Asian sentiments during the COVID-19 pandemic, this article hypothesizes that such racism is intersectionally informed, resu...
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Conversations and confusions: ethnic and racial identity exploration in a high school asian culture club Ethnic and Racial Studies (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2024-08-12 Anqi Hu
This study investigates the identity exploration of Asian American students in an Asian Culture Club (ACC) at a predominantly white high school in Atlanta, Georgia. While past work focuses on simil...
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The construction of “criminal outsiders”: security services and whitening-securitization in higher education Ethnic and Racial Studies (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2024-08-07 Laura Connelly, Remi Joseph-Salisbury, Siobhan O’Neill, Kerry Pimlott, Harry Taylor
This article examines students’ experiences of security services on university campuses. Drawing on semi-structured interviews and a national survey of UK students, we demonstrate that students’ pe...
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Intersecting identities, diverging visions: Christian nationalism, race, gender, and prioritizing equality or liberty Ethnic and Racial Studies (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2024-08-02 Samuel L. Perry, Jessica R. Veal, Landon Schnabel, Joshua B. Grubbs
Liberal democracies hold in tension two socio-political values, liberty and equality, with the understanding that prioritizing one often means sacrificing the other. In the United States, views on ...
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Antiracist protest in Germany: (mediated) racism experiences and emotions as drivers of mobilization Ethnic and Racial Studies (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2024-08-02 Elias Steinhilper, Stefanie Hechler, Tae Jun Kim
While antiracist protest has gained increasing prominence in Europe in recent years, the lack of representative data has so far prevented an assessment of the scope and drivers of antiracist protes...
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Constructing ethnic consciousness: the role of cultural heritage in Malaysia Ethnic and Racial Studies (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-30 Sheng Lyu, Rachel Chan Suet Kay, Eric Olmedo Panal
The Chinese community’s unique position in Malaysian inter-ethnic relations weaves through intricate interactions with other ethnic groups, maintaining distinct cultural identities amidst Malaysia’...
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Counteracting racism in education? Norwegian principals’ efforts in working against racism Ethnic and Racial Studies (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-30 Sara Blikstad Nyegaard
Education plays a fundamental role in the counteraction of racism. Although school leaders hold a central position in counteracting racism, little is known about their everyday efforts in this ende...
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Heroes, villains and naked nations: micro-solidarity and grounded nationalism in times of crisis Ethnic and Racial Studies (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-29 Lea David, Sarah Carol, Siniša Malešević, Gordana Uzelac
Figuratively speaking, the COVID-19 pandemic (2019–22) stripped nations naked, exposing the bare structure of how nationalism, as the driving force behind the nation-states, operates on the ground....
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Seeing “Seeing Others” differently Ethnic and Racial Studies (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-22 Michèle Lamont
Comments from Lorenza Fontana, Tiffany Joseph, Ali Meghji, and Ann Morning shed different lights on Seeing Others, and bring me to see the book differently. They draw a connection between its argum...
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Symposium on Ali Meghji’s A Critical Synergy: Race, Decoloniality, and World Crises Ethnic and Racial Studies (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-18 John Solomos
Published in Ethnic and Racial Studies (Vol. 47, No. 13, 2024)
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Feeling queer, feeling real: affective economies of truth in queer asylum politics Ethnic and Racial Studies (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-11 Sophia Zisakou
This article discusses the role of affect in the credibility assessment process in queer asylum claims. Through 27 semistructured interviews with caseworkers, it explores how sexual truth, in the G...
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Symposium on Michèle Lamont's Seeing Others: How Recognition Works – And How It Can Heal a Divided World Ethnic and Racial Studies (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-12 John Solomos
Published in Ethnic and Racial Studies (Vol. 47, No. 13, 2024)
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The persistence and pervasiveness of racial discrimination in Great Britain: capturing experienced racial discrimination over time and life domains Ethnic and Racial Studies (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-11 Laia Bécares, Harry Taylor, James Nazroo, Dharmi Kapadia, Nissa Finney, Neema Begum, Natalie Shlomo
Racism has been long-established to be associated with social, economic, and health inequalities for minoritised ethnic groups, but existent evidence likely under-estimates the extent and persisten...
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Theoretical synergy, global social theory, and the global colourline Ethnic and Racial Studies (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-08 Ali Meghji
In this paper, I offer a reply to the critics in this book symposium. I cover issues pertaining to the how and why of theoretical synergy, and how the project of synergy between critical race and d...
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Roma women serving community sentences in Italy: an analysis through the lens of Critical Criminology and Critical Romani Studies Ethnic and Racial Studies (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-05 Claudia Mantovan
This article asserts that it can be analytically expedient to employ and combine aspects of Critical Criminology and Critical Romani Studies in research that analyses the relationship between Roma ...
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Tactical choices of diaspora movements: comparing Hongkonger, Thai, Burmese, and Ukrainian mobilizations in Taiwan Ethnic and Racial Studies (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-05 Ming-sho Ho, Wei An Chen
Diaspora movements are campaigns launched by migrant minorities who maintain allegiance to their homelands. This article investigates the recent mobilization of the Hongkonger, Thai, Burmese, and U...
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Lay down your sword? Christian nationalism, race, and opposition to requiring gun permits Ethnic and Racial Studies (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-05 Christopher H. Seto, Samuel L. Perry
Christian nationalism and race are both important predictors of firearm policy preferences in the United States, and a growing body of research argues that ideas about gun control tend to be racial...
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At the gate to Australia’s heavenly peace: Asian racialization and Australia’s Tiananmen Chinese Ethnic and Racial Studies (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-04 Tandee Wang
This paper considers the racialization of Asians in Australia through the dialectic of the “yellow peril” and “model minority”. It uses the specific historical case study of People’s Republic of Ch...
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Epistemicide and epistemological disobedience: lessons from a critical synergy Ethnic and Racial Studies (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-02 Vilna Bashi
This article contributes to the ERS symposium on Ali Meghji's 2023 book, A Critical Synergy: Race, Decoloniality, and World Crises (Temple University Press). While offering a selective review of th...
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“Outsiders on the inside”: how minoritised elites respond to racial inequality Ethnic and Racial Studies (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2024-06-13 Katie Higgins, Sam Friedman, Aaron Reeves
Given the slow progress on increasing racial and ethnic diversity at the highest levels of society, it is important to ask what role racialisation plays in the experience of minoritised individuals...
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Examining both the why and how of critical synergy Ethnic and Racial Studies (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2024-06-17 Mari Sanchez
In A Critical Synergy: Race, Decoloniality, and World Crises, Ali Meghji provides a provocative, approachable and convincing account of why decolonial thought and critical race theory can work toge...
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Toxic whiteness in sports fandom: a reflective analysis of fan racism between football codes in the United Kingdom and Australia Ethnic and Racial Studies (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2024-06-13 Jamie Cleland
This article commentary highlights the pattern of findings from various projects conducted in the United Kingdom on football fans and in Australia on football, Australian Rules football, and rugby ...
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The race for theory part II: on race, blackness, and internationalism Ethnic and Racial Studies (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2024-06-10 Jean Beaman
In this essay, I consider Meghji’s implications for scholars of race, racism, and blackness/anti-blackness by providing an overview of Meghji’s many interventions, and then pivoting to discussing i...
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The uses and reuses of monuments in the Black Lives Matter era Ethnic and Racial Studies (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-30 Elizabeth Jordie Davies
The destruction of white supremacist monuments has become a flashpoint in the Black Lives Matter mass movement. However, this essay recounts the construction of monuments by Black activists and art...
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Left out of the left behind? Ethnic minority support for Brexit Ethnic and Racial Studies (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-30 Nicole Martin, Maria Sobolewska, Neema Begum
The Brexit referendum was a seismic electoral event with far-reaching consequences, but ethnic minority voters’ decisions in the referendum remain under-researched. We examine what differentiates e...
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Notting Hill Carnival and Rock Against Racism: converging cultures of resistance during late 1970s Britain Ethnic and Racial Studies (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-29 Zakariya Cochrane
The Notting Hill Carnival and Rock Against Racism were two of the most significant cultural and political movements of the mid-to-late 1970s. While the two movements had numerous contact points, ac...
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Comparative moves: the pursuit of value and belonging in transnational migration toward a “better life” Ethnic and Racial Studies (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-22 Valerio Simoni, Jérémie Voirol, Elise Hjalmarson
Moving beyond comparison as a method that juxtaposes community-based case studies, this article explores how migrants with different backgrounds and trajectories themselves deploy comparison in the...
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Racism and food delivery platforms: shaping migrants’ work experiences and future expectations in the United Kingdom and Chile Ethnic and Racial Studies (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-20 Macarena Bonhomme, James Muldoon
Recent studies have demonstrated that platform work is predominately undertaken by migrant workers. Drawing on a qualitative study of platform-based food delivery work in Chile and the United Kingd...
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Mobile spaces of control and moral geographies: places of internal bordering, immorality and crime in Sweden Ethnic and Racial Studies (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-24 Lisa Marie Borrelli
This paper – based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in 2017 with the Swedish border police force in charge of detecting and deporting irregularised migrants – analyses bordered urban space. It c...
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Care and wellbeing across Europe – a research frame for studying migrant families Ethnic and Racial Studies (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-23 Martina Brandt, Judith Kaschowitz
All over Europe, the question of sustainable care for the older people gains attention. Although the number of older migrants is increasing significantly, to date only little empirical research dea...
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Aging Filipina migrants’ experiences of transnational end-of-life care and loss over time Ethnic and Racial Studies (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-23 Conely de Leon, Jenna Blower-Nassiri
This article addresses experiences of transnational end-of-life care among aging Filipina migrants before and during COVID-19. de Leon addresses the emotional costs associated with loving and losin...
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Transformation of informal elder care practices and mobilities during the pandemic Ethnic and Racial Studies (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-23 Lena Näre, Lise Widding Isaksen
The COVID-19 pandemic revealed that when formal care services closed down, informal care burden was unequally transferred to women. Women across the world became part of “caregiver pools”. Using te...
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Intersectional activism: Dutch-Turkish Muslim women “talking back” to securitization and Islamophobia Ethnic and Racial Studies (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-09 Şerife Sena Güner, Tahir Abbas
This article investigates the efforts of influential Turkish Muslim civil society actors to amplify the voices of Muslim women in the Netherlands. Through interviews, the research uncovers the impa...
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Internal bordering and debordering in urban humanitarian health care Ethnic and Racial Studies (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-13 Corinna A. Di Stefano
Current literature on internal bordering has suggested understanding health care as a key migration control field. This article takes a closer look at the humanitarian medical offices in Frankfurt ...
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Reactive religiosity? The longitudinal relationship between ethnic harassment, religious identity and wellbeing in the UK Ethnic and Racial Studies (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-13 Ingrid Storm
Ethnic harassment is a common experience among ethnic and religious minorities in the UK and can reduce wellbeing. However, previous research on ethnic minorities suggests that experiences of haras...
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Uncovering social assimilation disparities: immigrants’ volunteering in associations Ethnic and Racial Studies (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-09 Anders Bastrup Jørgensen, Hans-Peter Yogachandiran Qvist
This study examines how much immigrants from different country of origin groups assimilate to native-level volunteering in organizations in Denmark. We employ multilevel linear probability models, ...
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Beyond work: elite Black women’s tensions with middle-class status Ethnic and Racial Studies (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-09 Kathryn Wiley
This article examines how elite Black women determine their class status in the era of wealth inequality. While previous literature focuses on labor to theorize Black middle-class power, homeowners...
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From postmigrant articulations to political subjectification Ethnic and Racial Studies (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-09 Jasmin Donlic
This article deals with the articulations of generations whose parents and/or grandparents immigrated to Austria and Germany and who have been termed postmigrants. After setting out the theoretical...
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Residing (at) the border: ethnographies of precarious homes and internal borders Ethnic and Racial Studies (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-03 Olga Lafazani
In this paper, I open a discussion on internal bordering practices, starting from an unexpected space: the home. I delve into instances where newly arrived migrants, despite living in the city cent...
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Homeless or refugee? Civil Society Actors and the (un)making of internal borders in an Italian frontier town Ethnic and Racial Studies (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-03 Paola Bonizzoni, Iraklis Dimitriadis
Migrants’ access to the national territory is filtered through categorisation processes that entangle the legal–administrative statuses produced by immigration controls with stratified access to so...
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Europe’s spectacular borderlines: on refugee camps, banlieues and other spaces of exception Ethnic and Racial Studies (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-02 Rodrigo Bueno Lacy, Henk van Houtum
Mourning the murder of Nahel Merzouk by the French police and the drowning of 750 human beings by the Greek coastguard’s recklessness, we argue that the erosion of human rights at the EU’s external...
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The edges of critique: thinking with A Critical Synergy Ethnic and Racial Studies (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-01 Meghan Tinsley
Ali Meghji’s A Critical Synergy provides a thought-provoking framework for putting two bodies of thought in conversation with one another. Doing so advances the project of imagining alternative, an...
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Internal status borders: municipal registration between emancipation, exclusion and omission in Italy Ethnic and Racial Studies (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-01 Enrico Gargiulo
Registration promotes emancipation: by acquiring a legal individual identity, a person becomes a formal member of a community and obtains rights. However, registration also enables and reproduces h...
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Administrative control mechanisms in the descent-based family reunification of refugees Ethnic and Racial Studies (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-01 Elena Fattorelli
Since it establishes differentiated socio-legal eligibility categories among different migrant groups, family reunification constitutes a prime example of the internal border. In my article, I inve...
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Mapping the internal border through the city: an introduction Ethnic and Racial Studies (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-01 Margit Fauser
This editorial to the Special Issue introduces the concept of the internal border and presents its individual contributions. It discusses the shift from the borderline toward diverse sites and acto...
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(Non-state) actors in internal bordering and differential inclusion: Syrian refugees’ housing experience in Turkey Ethnic and Racial Studies (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-01 Ulaş Sunata, Feriha Nazda Güngördü
Turkey, as the largest refugee-hosting country, provides insights into the externalization of European borders and the internalization of its own borders. Oscillating between open-door and strict-b...
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Living in a world with(out) racism: everyday reflexivity among older White Dutch Ethnic and Racial Studies (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-01 M. A. U. D. J. E. (Maud) van Roessel, Delia Dumitrica
This article explores how older White Dutch people produce reflexivity on race and racism in the context of the public controversy around the “Zwarte Piet” (black Pete) tradition. Reflexivity refer...
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One rotten apple or a rotten tree: football leaders’ perceptions of racism in European football Ethnic and Racial Studies (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-01 Palesa Mashigo, Jacco van Sterkenburg, Teresa De la Hera, Joao Fernando Ferreira Goncalves
Despite efforts by key stakeholders to address racial discrimination in international football, racially charged behaviour persists, particularly in the European context. To explore this phenomenon...
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Introduction Ethnic and Racial Studies (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-01 John Solomos
Published in Ethnic and Racial Studies (Vol. 47, No. 8, 2024)
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Seeing and knowing others Ethnic and Racial Studies (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-30 Ann Morning
In Seeing Others, Michèle Lamont draws on decades of research – her own and others’ – to outline how we can open up the circle of “who matters” in our societies. Through interviews with cultural ch...
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John Stone and Ethnic and Racial Studies Ethnic and Racial Studies (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-25 John Solomos
This paper reviews the contribution of John Stone to the development of the journal Ethnic and Racial Studies and more generally to the study of race and ethnic relations. It outlines his commitmen...