Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia: Spectropolitics and Immigration
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In the context of the Dutch immigration debate, tributes to the Holocaust and the memory of Europe’s dead Jews increasingly serve to dismantle multiculturalism as a failed paradigm and to drive a wedge between a revitalized, redeemed, color-blind, post-racial Europe and disenfranchized immigrant, minority and Muslim populations. Embedded in these invocations of the Holocaust and its moral imperatives is a ‘spectropolitics’ of tolerance, in which tolerance, staged as an essential touchstone of Dutch identity, supplies a differential norm that measures the civilizational and racial disjuncture between Europeans, minorities, and Muslims, and validates the new dual paradigm of Dutch citizenship and immigration policy: securitization and disciplinary integration. The centrality of the Holocaust as paradigmatic of Dutch and European racial history meanwhile sidelines the colonial past as constitutive of European identity; displaces an alternative understanding of race as (bio- and necro-political) instruments of colonial rule; and disavows the continued application of these instruments of racial rule in Dutch and European post-colonial societies.
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Main Topic: Antisemitism Antisemitism Memory Islamophobia Multiculturalism Racism Immigration Jewish - Muslim Relations Tolerance
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31(6)
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77-101
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Link to article (paywalled), Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia: Spectropolitics and Immigration
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Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia: Spectropolitics and Immigration. 2014: 77-101. https://archive.jpr.org.uk/10.1177%2F0263276413519482
