Danewid, Ida (2021) Policing the (migrant) crisis: Stuart Hall and the defence of whiteness. Security Dialogue. pp. 1-17. ISSN 0967-0106

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Abstract

Over the last two decades, the European border regime has become the subject of a growing body of scholarship in critical security studies. In this article, I draw on Stuart Hall’s work on racialized policing, authoritarian populism and conjunctural analysis to argue that this literature has paid insufficient attention to the close relationship between racism, capitalism and state violence. Writing at the dawn of Thatcherism and neoliberal globalization, Hall theorized the growth in repressive state structures as a revanchist response to breakdowns in racial hegemony. Revisiting these insights, the article argues that the ongoing expansion of the European border regime is a hegemonic strategy of racialized crisis management. The imposition of ever more restrictive immigration policies, increased surveillance and heightened forms of deportability are attempts to defend white bourgeois order and to police a (neoliberal) racial formation in crisis. The migrant ‘crisis’ is ultimately the result of one racialized world order collapsing, and another struggling to be born.

Item Type:	Article
Keywords:	Stuart Hall, migrant crisis, conjunctural analysis, security, racial capitalism, neoliberalism
Schools and Departments:	School of Global Studies > International Relations
SWORD Depositor:	Mx Elements Account
Depositing User:	Mx Elements Account
Date Deposited:	30 Mar 2021 10:51
Last Modified:	28 Apr 2021 07:30
URI:	http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/98149

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