Intersections of White privilege, gender and racism

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Intersections of White privilege, gender and racism in ethnically diverse societies
A dialogue on Whiteness and gender in Sweden and the UK

Post-war migration within and to Western and Northern Europe has led to fundamental demographic changes in these societies. Previously considered as fully or prevalently white nation states, countries like the United Kingdom and Sweden today are among the most ethnically diverse societies in the continent. Parts of large metropolitan cities such as London, Stockholm, Birmingham, and Malmö, are predominantly populated by black and ethnic minorities. The demographic shifts of the last 60 years have been used by right wing political actors to foment perceptions that depicts the (white) majority society as being socially, culturally and economically under threat by non-white immigrant citizens. The broadly negative political reactions to the so-called 2015 “refugee crisis”, calling for border closures; the rhetoric of ‘bringing back [immigration] control’ used to legitimise the exit of the United Kingdom from the European Union; and the latest immigration and citizenship bills in the UK (2021) and in Sweden (2021) calling for further restrictions to residency permits and naturalisation are some of the most recent political reactions that testify to how non-white migration has been scapegoated as a threat to an imagined racially homogenous past. These policies have created a legitimisation of more virulent racism in the public, demonstrated in spikes in hate crimes across the continent. Increasingly, scholars are demonstrating how these actions are reactions to a perceived threat to the white privilege that structures societies in Europe. This applies to both the UK, where race categories have been used in policy and among the public for decades, and in Sweden, which has instead presented itself as an international champion of colour-blind anti-racism.Speakers: 
Professor Kehinde Andrews, Birmingham City University 
Dr Tobias Hübinette, Karlstad University 
Professor Catrin Lundström, Linköping University

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