Mediterranean Racisms ― Connections and Complexities in the Racialization of the Mediterranean Region

This book is unique in identifying and engaging with an analysis of racism in Mediterranean contexts, including Southern Europe, North Africa, Turkey, the Middle East and Malta. The volume contributes to an empirically-based theoretical re-framing of both the racialization of the globe and evaluation of the prospects for anti-racism and the post-racial. The Arab Spring and its aftermath, the hardening of racist exclusions, evictions and exploitation in Southern Europe, accelerating migration of African people across this area, stagnating racial Palestinianization and the shifting American focus to the Pacific region all provide a highly dynamic context urging a re-assessment of the ways in which contemporary processes of racialization are working. There exists a major knowledge gap in this area and this book will begin to fill this hole in our understanding.

Ian Law is Professor of Racism and Ethnicity Studies and Founding Director of the Centre for Ethnicity and Racism Studies at the University of Leeds, UK. His previous publications include Red Racisms: Racism in Communist and Post-Communist Contexts (2012).