Etienne Balibar suggested that the word ‘race’ has its own role in capitalism, an alter of capitalism forms which shows the content of ideologies change. He argued that the migrant groups are blamed for lowering the cultural level in the West and bringing economic issues and chaos, when the economic fall down and the migrant groups has less life chances. He calls that ‘crisis’ racism deflects anxieties. ’Differentialist’ is the primary argument. Cultural difference in the world’s populations is appropriate and essential, at the same time, it is obvious. Conflicts must take place in our world, at the time geographical spaces has been narrowed. People fight for their own culture and interest. Take Hong Kong as a example, Hong Kong ,is a city, interdependence with China, when the distance of geographical spaces …show more content…
Balibar argued that the superiority filling with the new racism, appear ‘in the very type of criteria applied in thinking the difference between cultures’. Even if it indicate itself egalitarian but separatist. People who come from outside of the Europe is seen as contributing to the separatist. The ‘new racism’’s legacy is the cultural frame is still placing at the majority of the language and politics of the mainstream and extreme right in Europe. Italy did a lot to protect its cultural integrity when migrants bought the cultures from the South and outside the EU since 1990s onward. It focuses on African and Eastern European immigrants, the discourse is related to citizenship, immigration legislation and suggestions for putting immigrants together. In Europe, Australia and North America these political and social tensions have seems to be focus on two main aspects of issues. Firstly, in welfare systems aspect, the asylum and refugee groups and undercover or undocumented persons might bring perceived effect on social
I believe that global capitalism will change in the next 30 years because people, particularly the Proletariats of society today, will be tired of putting up with the Bourgeoisie taking all of their money and leaving them to live a life of extreme poverty. I believe that in the next 30 years the Proletariats will become class-conscious and see the injustice the bourgeoisie is inflicting upon them. Stéphane Haber writes in her journal, “Emancipation from Capitalism?” that “One must be able to disconnect from capitalism and define it as external to certain crucial aspects of who we are and the world that is ours, without which the theme of emancipation would be deprived of certain conditions of its validity, and lose its ontological
McKeown’s book significantly traces the enforcement of the bio-power on the national border control system against the background of the expansion of capitalist global order, and thus further debunks that the seemingly neutral face of modern international migration is a discursive and institutional mask for coloniality. His arguments keep reminding me of previous insights on our modern world by thinkers like Foucault, Walter Mignolo, and Lisa Lowe, who all stay vigilant to the progressive and emancipatory vision from the enlightenment, or, the western modernity, by revealing its dialectic relevance to its opposite, the suppression and alienation of humanity from disciplinary regimentation of social life to colonial bloodshed and enslavement.
Integration of culture within the United States has become a difficult task for government officials who follows the Multiculturalist approach. Culture is the diversification of one’s being as regards to their immutable traits being learnt from the time of their births. Linda Chaves’s essay “Demystifying Multiculturalism” points out that the accommodation of equal rights between whites and non-whites is not a problem it is education. However, multiculturalist believes that non-whites are becoming a threat to their population and will eventually change the American culture. The demographic tidal wave illusion from the business sectors is merely an exaggeration as they believe that non-white’s will eventually whip out United States white’s population. Chavez gives attention to the fact that ‘judgment should not be based on skin color but by content of one’s character’ (6). Furthermore, she doesn’t only criticize the Multiculturalist techniques but emphasizes through reasoning why the Multiculturalist approach would imposed negative attitude towards the non-whites in the United States. This will not only create negativity but a racial chaos between whites and non-whites living in the United States.
Though immigration is not a new phenomenon in the world’s history, it has been notice that now days immigration has increased more than ever. This is mainly caused because of better ways of communication and transportation, which it makes it possible to people to move and enter other countries. However there are many types of immigrations such as economical, retirement immigrants or even ‘natural disasters’ immigrants. People sometimes seek a new life to save themselves from poverty and misery, thus they decide to enjoy the benefits of another country. Still there are other immigrants who are forced to leave their countries because of wars or even natural disasters, such as the tsunami in Japan 2011. Some philosophers consider closed borders to restrict people freedom of movement and that global justice is been violated. On the other hand Miller and other philosophers argued that immigration causes more disadvantages than advantages into the country they enter. Also they agree that states have a moral right to limit immigrations in order to prevent any changes in their culture, as immigration affects several things, even if this means that they will violate human rights. Another concern for the states is the welfare state where sometimes it may be limited and countries cannot afford any immigrants. However, is it right to oppose people rights of freedom, or is it correct for states to limit immigration?
Without a doubt, the European continent has been through a lot over the last few decades. From World War 2, to the iron grip of Soviet Russia on half of the continent, many problems have arisen and been dealt with. Unfortunately, Europe has had a rough few years when it comes to the somewhat newer issue of immigration and immigrant groups. While some countries have managed immigration better than others, nations such as France and Italy have had their fair share of problems and continue to pass legislation that is flawed and draws criticism from other countries. The issue has gotten better in recent years, and various European countries have made great progress towards their immigration policies. In addition, various ethnic groups have been the target of government profiling and discrimination. Most notably the Romani people, who have faced discrimination for hundreds of years and continue to do so at the hands of various Eastern and Western European governments. The many setbacks and gains towards immigration are more clearly visible when looked at on a case-by-case basis, such as the individual policies of Italy, France, and the European Union as a whole.
cultural pluralism and separatism which is the racism theory. In the article “From Rez Life: An
In the 19th century, the criminal law protected mainly the Europeans: an example can be the prohibition of Chinese living in the Peak area. Recently, the uprising of the Occupy Central Protests showed the existence of imbalance of power in Hong Kong, where “the minority upper classes control political power”. In fact, I reckon that the conflict perspective is more suitable to describe the world’s situation nowadays. Nearly all countries prioritize national’s interests over citizens’ benefits, regardless of how liberal the country seems to be. The perfect consensus perspective can never be achieved, unless a country is perfectly equal, not in war, completely atheism or homo-religious, homo-ethnic, and all of its citizens are highly
The fancy American Dream has drawn people from all over the world to the United States to push for their upward social mobility. They have a dream and they want to make it come true. At this time Immigrants, into the major cities of the U.S, making them a melting pot. That melting pot has a different ethnic, social and cultural background, some of which contradict each other, while others are very harmonious. Race is often an obstacle to cultural communication and understanding. For this problem, Sherman Alexie his short story “Gentrification”, and Alex Tizon, with his story “Land of the Giants”, have a lot to say about how race is Obstacle to intercultural communication and understanding and that affect people misunderstand.
Migration has been a major part of human living and also animals, people migrate for various reasons such as seeking better lives, family, job opportunity, availability of social amenities etc. immigration policies were put in place to monitor and decide who immigrate to a country and these policies have been present since 1906, and these polices have had different reasons for their enactment and these reasons change as time and era changes (Baglay, 2014). The early policies were racially based restriction, economic growth, multiculturalism, restriction on refugee and economic immigration (Baglay, 2014). The Communitarian approach used by Michael Walzer to explain immigration policy is similar to Canadian immigration policy. This paper seeks to discuss and analyze the articles by Joseph Carens and Michael Walzer, explaining the different perspectives of explaining immigration policies. The paper would summarize and contrast the author’s main arguments. It would take a stand on which argument is more persuasive in explaining immigration policy and give reason for this position. It would also use other articles to support or refute each argument made by Joseph Carens and Michael Walzer. Lastly this paper would explain and come to a conclusion of if any of these arguments apply to Canadian immigration policy and give examples of these similarities. Carens and Walzer had very different view on immigration and open border, Carens used the Liberal perspective of explaining open border.
The mention of the abolition of multiculturalism for a “new” post-multiculturalist approach becomes difficult to understand. It claims, “to avoid the ‘excesses’ of multiculturalism” (47), however where does this notable governmental and social switch take place? How is the term coined, and how is it understood in theory versus in practice? How is it different from its predecessor? Even the classification of history struggles to define what is considered to be modern, let alone post-modern, and yet the term suggests a positive approach to alleviating difficult assimilation projects similar to those faced elsewhere (47). This notion may developed on the grounds of “someone else’s problems” ¬– in regards to its Canadian context – as a means to label, or justify, miscellaneous aspects of multiculturalism. However, with the government-wide commitment to policies and programs, in conjunction with social understanding, it naturally becomes subject to a wide array of differing opinions. As both immigration and citizenship policies change, its public reception often shifts as well. Especially since the channels referred to within the ‘multiculturalism...
To begin with, the role of Critical Race Theory provides us with the idea of “racial realism”, the idea that racism, the normalcy of white supremacy is part of the everyday life of an ‘other’, in other words, racial or indigenous minorities in Canada (Slides on Critical Race Theory). The Critical Race Theory gives an understanding of the power that can be given to a definition such as ‘race’, and how
The idea of globalization includes a variety of different aspects of economic, political, and societal life. In order to question of whether or not globalization has a progressive or downbeat influence in our contemporary world, we should look at different perspectives of component of globalization. According to Marx and Engels, globalization can be raised from capitalism, which a class struggle between who own the means of production and those who work for a wage exist. Throughout a development of cooperative resist on the part of groups of people with similar economic situations, they argue that capitalism brings optimistic and pessimistic impacts into our modern society. Correspondingly, in the article “Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy,” Arjun Appadurai agrees with Marx and Engels’ argument on the cause of globalization, yet somewhat disagrees on a process of globalization producing cultural dominance over one another. As both of the readings convey the accomplishment and failure of globalization by highlighting on its national and international specificity, diverse ways in which the global assimilation indicates people within different traditional, economic, and social contexts are illustrated, pointing out strengths and weaknesses of their arguments. Moreover, Robeson Taj Frazier’s concept of globalization in his article “China’s Chocolate Girl Wonder: Lou Jing and Anti-Black Racism” can be connected to Appadurai’s idea of disjuncture flows through an example of Lou Jing’s nationality as a Black Chinese and Chinese in China. Consequently, throughout comparing and contrasting the various notions of globalization that Marx and Engels, Appadurai and Frazier argue, we become to recognize globalization as...
...storical context of differential power and inequality.” (Schiller, Basch & Blanc-Szanton 8). Again, migrant workers exist because of economic circumstances and the innate sense of survival.
In her article “Global Pathways. Working Class Cosmopolitans and the Creation of Transnational Ethnic Worlds,” Pnina Werbner critiques some of the Eurocentric ideas propagated by immigration scholars. However, in her efforts to do so, Werbner simply continues to perpetuate Eurocentric, hegemonic theories, albeit different theories than the scholars she discusses. In her discussion of the differences between cosmopolitan and transnational/migrant flows of people, Werbner falls into the pitfalls of perpetuating the Eurocentric assignments of agency and blame to certain groups. Her discussions of various migrant groups become problematic in that she fails to significantly acknowledge the aspects of social stereotypes and institutional racism which contribute to the classifications of migrants in the contemporary sphere. Instead, the author continues what appears to be a scholarly trend in the works she herself criticizes by suggesting that migrant groups choose to isolate themselves and distance themselves from the cultures of their host countries. The work of Pnina Werbner, while interesting and in many ways a valid contribution to her field, is problematic in its failure to step outside of the hegemonic narrative in regards to migrant classification.
Globalization is becoming one of the most controversial topics in today’s world. We see people arguing over the loss of a nation’s cultural identity, the terror of westernization, and the reign of cultural imperialism. Through topics such as these we explore the possibilities or the existence of hybridization of cultures and values, and what some feel is the exploitation of their heritage. One important aspect that is not explored is that such influences can also be more than just a burden and an overstepping of bounds. These factors can create an educational environment as well as a reaffirmation of one’s own culture.