Xeno-racism or racialized xenophobia? Problematizing selective hospitality to foreingners in Brazil

In this study, we introduce the concept of xeno-racism, proposed by the Srilankan novelist Ambalavaner Sivanandan, discussing its possible applications to studies on migration, diaspora and xenophobia in Brazil. We problematize the relationship between xenophobia and racism in view of the particular...

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Autores: Faustino, Deivison, De Oliveira, Leila Maria
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2022
País:Brasil
Institución:Centro Scalabriniano de Estudos Migratórios (CSEM)
Repositorio:REMHU (Online)
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:remhu.csem.br:article/1494
Acceso en línea:https://remhu.csem.org.br/index.php/remhu/article/view/1494
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Migração
Xenofobia
Racismo
Xeno-racismo
Xenofobia racializada
Migration
Xenophobia
Racism
Xeno-racism
Racialized xenophobia
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Sumario:In this study, we introduce the concept of xeno-racism, proposed by the Srilankan novelist Ambalavaner Sivanandan, discussing its possible applications to studies on migration, diaspora and xenophobia in Brazil. We problematize the relationship between xenophobia and racism in view of the particular historical and social characteristics of capitalism in Brazil. We argue that the criteria of acceptance and distinction in societies based on colonization offered a scenario of unequal distribution of reception to foreigners, depending on their origin and heteroclassification in the social markers of local difference. This selectivity, here named as racialized xenophobia, imposes sociological characteristics specific to migratory dynamics in the particular Brazilian context.