The making of racialized subjects: Practices, history, struggles

My intervention advances two related methodological and epistemic pathways. First, it foregrounds heterogeneous biopolitical technologies connected but not limited to security and humanitarianism, and warns against the dehistoricization of migrants and refugees. Second, going beyond an exclusive focus on representation and discourses, it draws attention to racializing administrative and legal practices. In the conclusion, I draw attention to anti-racist struggles and coalitions, arguing that a political reading of racialized security practices should start from that. Indeed, engaging with the partial neglect of race in international relations ‘is more than simply a matter of talking about race’ (Gupta and Virdee, 2018: 1748). Nor should an insight into racialization be incorporated just as a corrective to the Eurocentrism of critical security studies. Here, I mobilize racialization as a referent to scrutinize recursive security practices and, at the same time, to shed light on the history of anti-racist transversal struggles.