ABSTRACT
What is the relationship between migration and race? Given all the different aspects of migration – transnational processes, diasporic communities, immigrant adaptation of families, and the dynamics of sending and receiving societies (to name only some) – I will map out the relationship between migration and race, as evidenced by changing social and political developments and/or theorized by various analysts. In doing so, I will broadly address the relationship between migration and race in Western, advanced capitalist societies, such as in North America and Western Europe. Since both these terms are extremely broad, and can refer to many different bodies of literature, this overview will be necessarily schematic. In this chapter, I examine six major currents and developments that are re-shaping the way we think about the historical (and often presumed) coupling of migration and race: (1) Growing attention to second-generation inclusion and belonging; (2) Debates about the salience of race and ethnicity; (3) Whiteness and White migrants; (4) Islamophobia and discrimination; (5) Rethinking of multiculturalism and citizenship; and (6) Growth in intermarriage and ‘mixed race’ people.
