Virtual Book Launch: Migration and Racialization in Times of “Crisis”

The health crisis, the migration crisis, the humanitarian crisis, and the climate crisis. The repeating reference to the idea of crisis to label numerous social upheavals suggests that we now live in a world defined by crisis.

Yet the urgency inherent in a crisis often leads to the normalization of rights violations and increased surveillance, profiling and arbitrary arrests, making visible the state’s control over bodies, and certain bodies, in particular.

Migration and Racialization in Times of “Crisis”: The Making of Crises and their Effects explores the colonial, racist and sexist underpinnings of various declarations of crisis, as well as their effects. Taken together, these contributions show that the state of crisis manifests as a condition for the maintenance of racial and patriarchal capitalism.

The English and French version of this title, though distinct, complement each other to offer a more comprehensive and critical look at this approach of “governing through crisis”. Both editions are also available in Open Access. 

About the authors

Leila Benhadjoudja is Associate Professor in the Institute of Feminist and Gender Studies and the School of Sociological and Anthropological Studies at the University of Ottawa.

Christina Clark-Kazak is Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa.

Stéphanie Garneau is Full Professor in the School of Social Work at the University of Ottawa and was director of the Research Collective on Migration and Racism.

Contributions by Brad Blitz, Magalie Civil, Elaine Chase, Theresa Cheng, Tahseen Chowdury, Yacout El Abboubi, Maritza Felices-Luna, Walter Flores, Valentina Glockner, Marina Gomá, Tatiana Llagumo, Ricardo Muniz-Trejo, Chiedza Pasipanodya, Manuel Salamanca Cardona, Penelope Van Tuyl, Martha Alexandra Vargas Aguirre, Gina Vukojević, Ian Warwick, Deborah Zion, and Jennifer Allsopp.