Migration and Racialization in Times of “Crisis”

Christina Clark-Kazak (Editor) Christina Clark-Kazak is Full Professor at the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa, President of the International Association for the Study of Forced Migration and outgoing Editor-in-Chief of Refuge: Canadian Journal on Refugees. She has previously worked for York University, Saint Paul University, the Canadian government and the Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers. She has also served as President of the Canadian Association for Refugee and Forced Migration Studies, Director of York University's Refugee Studies Centre and Associate Dean (Research and Graduate Studies) of York University's bilingual Glendon Campus. Her research interests include age discrimination in migration and development; the political participation of young refugees; and interdisciplinary methodology.Leila Benhadjoudja (Editor) Leila Benhadjoudja is an Associate Professor in the Institute of Feminist and Gender Studies and at the School of Sociological and Anthropological Studies at the University of Ottawa. Her research focuses on Political sociology, Feminist and Gender Theory, Race and Ethnicity as well as Postcolonialism and Cultural Studies.

• GENERAL INTRODUCTIONLeila Benhadjoudja, Christina Clark-Kazak and Stéphanie Garneau 1. How to define a crisis? Looking back at a concept 2. Thinking about "crises" through the lens of racial capitalism 3. Ways of thinking about crises and migrant, Black, indigenous and racialized populations 4. Overview of the English volume 5. Overview of the French volumeTHE THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL POTENTIAL OF ‘ACOMPAÑAMIENTO’ FOR RESEARCH WITH PEOPLE MARGINALISED THROUGH IMMIGRATION CONTROLSValentina Glockner, Walter Flores, Elaine Chase, Jennifer Allsopp, Ian Warwick, Deborah Zion, Brad Blitz, Ricardo Muniz-Trejo, Penelope Van Tuyl and Theresa Cheng1. Purpose of the paper 2. Migration, deportations and marginalisation in Central America 2.1.Understanding acompañamiento2.2.Bringing acompañamiento to research 3. Positionality and motivation 3.1.Relationship of acompañamiento to particular research approaches 4. The ethics of acompañamiento 4.1.Implications for co-creating knowledge4.2.Concluding thoughtsVIVE LA FRANCE! EXALTING FRENCH NATIONALISM THROUGH NEWS MEDIA NARRATIVES OF CALAIS MIGRANTS Maritza Felices-Luna1. The politics of (in)visibility: foregrounding and erasing migrants in Calais 2. News media narratives of migrant ‘crises’ 3. Walking away from crisis as intelligibility towards crisis as constitutive through narrative analysis 4. Unpacking the figured worlds 4.1.French solidarity 4.2.France under attack 4.3.The points where both figured worlds meet 5. The French national as custodian of French values and guardian of French sovereignty THE VENEZUELAN “MIGRATORY CRISIS” IN THE ECUADORIAN CONTEXT: PROBLEMATIZING IMMIGRANTS AS VICTIMS AND THREATSMartha Alexandra Vargas Aguirre1. Methodology 2. Context3. Managing Venezuelan immigration as a crisis 4. Conclusion TOP MANTA: BARCELONA’S UNIONIZED MANTEROS IN THEIR STRUGGLE FOR RECOGNITION AND REDISTRIBUTION Tatiana Llaguno and Marina Gomá1. Context2. My dream was not to become a mantero: I am a fisherman 3. El cayuco: Resisting necropolitical deathscapes 4. Weaving networks of solidarity: Re-shaping the city and reframing political belonging 5. Conclusion6. AcknowledgementsCOVID-19 IN MONTREAL: SYSTEMIC IMPACT ON PRECARIOUS IM/MIGRANT WORKERS AND THEIR ORGANIZING RESPONSESManuel Salamanca Cardona1. Setting the framework for the crisis in Montreal 2. Experiencing the crisis in terms of work, barriers to social protection, and migratory status 3. Highlighting systemic effects of the pandemic, auto-organizing and questioning the State exclusion 4. Self-organizing, critics and co-existence with the State and its institutions in times of pandemic 5. Conclusion‘DESIGNER MIGRANT’ OR ‘BACKDOOR MIGRANT’: CHALLENGES OF INTERNATIONAL STUDENT IDENTITY IN CANADA Tahseen Chowdhury and Chiedza Pasipanodya1. Methodology2. Context 3. Discussion3.1.Colonial Grammar and the Myths of Western Supremacy3.2.The Manufactured Crisis of Scarcity, Competition, and Fraud3.3.The Business and Branding of International Education 3.4.The Grammar of Internationalization3.5.Student, Migrant, or Worker? Crisis by Design4. Conclusion