Documentos CIDOB Migraciones; 13

This document presents an analysis of the role played by the new racism, or cultural racism, in the reproduction of "imagined historical borders" that exclude peoples and old colonies from access to equal rights in the centres of metropolises. By means of a study articulated around three linked concepts − nation, race and coloniality − the document compares the situation of Caribbean colonial immigrants in the Netherlands, the United States, France and the United Kingdom. All these countries are notable for the discrimination and, very often, the marginalisation experienced there by Puerto Ricans, Surinamese, Dutch Antilleans and French Antilleans, in spite of the fact that they share metropolitan citizenship. This is a good example of the way in which the limits of exclusion articulated by cultural racist discourses are a global phenomenon which is not exclusive to one single metropolitan country. These cultural racist discourses are also articulated, the author claims, against the Mexicans in the United States, the Turks in Germany, the Moroccans in the Netherlands, the Algerians in France, the Pakistanis in the United Kingdom and the Dominicans in Spain. “It is a global ideology based on a colonial imaginary that will continue to be expressed every day, until the capitalist global coloniality is resolved once and for all”.

Ramón Grosfoguel, Associate Professor at the Department of Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley

ISSN: 1697-7734 (print edition)
ISSN: 1697-8145 (online edition)

51 pp.

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