Denying Discrimination: Status, 'Race', and the Whitening of Britain's New Europeans
Denying Discrimination: Status, 'Race', and the Whitening of Britain's New Europeans
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DOI：
10.1080/1369183x.2014.962491
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发表时间：
2015-04-16
影响因子：
3.3
通讯作者：
Szilassy, Eszter
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作者：
Fox, Jon E.;Morosanu, Laura;Szilassy, Eszter
越来越多的证据表明，在英国的东欧移民一直是歧视的受害者。关于工资差距的报告指出了结构性歧视的可能性，对就业的限制是一种法律的歧视，政治家和媒体将东欧移民塑造成不同的人，有时是威胁性的。我们在布里斯托采访的匈牙利人和罗马尼亚人也报告了一些歧视，尽管方式偏离了其种族主义的内涵。但他们也否认自己是歧视的受害者。为什么所谓的歧视受害者会否认歧视？我们认为，他们这样做是为了削弱，并可能扭转，他们作为弱势群体，有时在英国的种族化劳动移民遭受的地位下降。我们研究了他们在谈判这一更高地位时所采用的两种话语策略。首先，他们通过拥抱统治阶级的精英价值观来获得更高的社会阶级地位。其次，他们通过强调自己的白人和欧洲性来宣称自己的种族地位更高。这些都是为了在英国种族化的地位等级制度中更有利地重新定位自己的话语尝试。
There is mounting evidence to suggest that East European migrants in the UK have been victims of discrimination. Reports of pay gaps point to the possibility of structural discrimination, restrictions on employment operate as a kind of legal discrimination, and politicians and the media have constructed East European migrants as different and at times threatening. The Hungarians and Romanians we spoke with in Bristol also reported some discrimination, albeit in ways that deflected its racialised connotations. But they also denied that they were victims of discrimination. Why would the supposed victims of discrimination deny discrimination? We argue they did this to attenuate, and potentially reverse, the status degradations they suffered as disadvantaged and at times racialised labour migrants in Britain. We examine two discursive strategies they employed to negotiate this higher status. First, they claimed a higher social class status by embracing the meritocratic values of the dominant class. Second, they claimed a higher racial status by emphasising their whiteness and Europeanness. These were discursive attempts to reposition themselves more favourably in Britain's racialised status hierarchies.