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A Guide to Talking about Racism | 70 Module 3 - Racism: How Is It Produced? OBJECTIVES OF THE MODULE 1. To become aware that racism is a social phenomenon. There are social, cultural, and institutional factors that create, maintain, and promote different forms of racism and discrimination. 2. To analyze different psychological theories about how the “racial” concepts that support, justify, and mask racist behavior develop. 3. To identify and describe some contemporary manifestations of racism: what they consist of, how they work, what consequences they have. 1 Critical Incident “Why do they say it’s illegal and all that... they say go back to your own country, you’re illegal, you can’t be here... go and starve…” (Interview 2) Beyond its most violent expressions (insults, agression), racism works in a less evident fashion in the form of prejudices that are expressed and identifiable in social discourse, and in the form of situations of segregation and discrimination that we tend not to relate directly to racist attitudes and behaviors. Racism wears masks, it puts on makeup, it disguises itself, it takes on different forms. In democratic societies, it is hard to justify or “tolerate” discrimination and segregation based on “racial” or “cultural” differences; so the reasoning and mechanisms that guarantee the maintenance of discrimination are different ones. One of the most subtle hides behind “legality.” There is talk about “illegals,” people “without papers,” “immigrants,” people who in fact live and work around us but whose basic rights are not acknowledged and whose “illegal” situation facilitates and promotes different kinds of situations of exploitation and abuse. The clash between “immigrants’ rights” and “citizens’ rights” is a recurring one in
Module 4 - Racism: How is it reproduced? | 71 political and media discourse. … The immigrant is a special citizen, whose rights can never be compared in some aspects to those of native citizens. First of all, the immigrant has joined the host society by their own decision, a decision which is, in addition, imposed unilaterally: the first act of the immigrant in his or her new society is usually the violation of its immigration laws. This way of entering has longlasting repercussions on their situation: for example, in the area of linguistic or cultural rights in general. The immigrant cannot demand that the State give him or her the same protection in these aspects as original citizens can, immigrants do not have the right to receive a guarantee that public means will be used to maintain their own cultural, linguistic, or religious framework … José Mª Ruiz Soroa. Extranjería y Ciudadanía ¿Deben votar los inmigrantes en las municipales? El País The first difficulty is in defining who is an “immigrant.” The Manual for Designing and Managing Social Action Projects with Immigrants (Manual para el diseño y gestión de proyectos de acción social con inmigrantes) of the Ministry of Work and Social Affairs offers the following definition of the term “immigrant”: IMMIGRANT: Term with no legal content. Public opinion generally believes that an immigrant is a person who has three characteristics: a person who comes to Spain with a certain intention to stay, who lives from salaried work or self-employment and occupies the lowest sectors of the job market. The families of the previously defined immigrants who move with them are also considered immigrants. - Who is an “immigrant”? In what conditions and for how long is a person an immigrant? Is “immigrant” a hereditary category? - How is an “immigrant” defined and how is a “citizen” defined? Can we speak of different degrees of citizenship? What function do you think the use of this gradation has? - Are immigrants citizens also? In what way are they, or can they be, citizens? To what extent is categorizing people as immigrants a racist behavior? The legal framework around “immigration” (remember that this is a term with no legal content) can constitute a manifestation of structural racism.
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