From the health crisis to the migration, humanitarian, and climate crises, our societies increasingly invoke the notion of “crisis” to describe social upheavals—suggesting that we now live in a world defined by crisis.
Yet, as Professor Benhadjoudja demonstrates, the urgency of crisis often results in the normalization of rights violations, coupled with increased surveillance, profiling, and arbitrary arrests. These practices make visible the state’s control over bodies—particularly certain bodies marked by racial, colonial, and gendered power structures.
Migration and Racialization in Times of “Crisis” examines the colonial, racist, and sexist underpinnings of various crisis declarations, as well as their effects. Collectively, its contributions show that the “state of crisis” functions as a condition for maintaining racial and patriarchal capitalism.
Of note, the English and French editions, though distinct, complement one another to provide a deeper and more critical perspective on the approach of “governing through crisis.”
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