It's kind of funny, but after listening for years how Bulgarian and Romanian immigrant hordes will invade the UK any second now, and after waiting 7 months for an interview to get a student's work permit... Whiteness is a political construct and incredibly fluid if capital demands it.
wait so this was done to facilitate racism or hatred against these groups by taking them off the 'White' list for the purposes of generating capital for the ruling class?
It's a bit more varied and complicated than that, but when you look at the bottom line, yes. Foreign workers are often marginalised in order to be more easily exploited, or as a scapegoat for shitty worker rights for native people, as a way to divide a burgeoning labour movement etc.
When I did my work permit interview, the forms I needed to fill out had questions like "have you been part of a terrorist organisation or do you know people who have been" and so on. Mind you, at the time Bulgaria had been a EU member state for, like, 7 years. This gave me a better sense of the kind of indignities forced on our Middle Eastern and brown comrades by the imperialist dogs. Never been happier than when I got back home for good. Fuck TERF island.
It's kind of funny, but after listening for years how Bulgarian and Romanian immigrant hordes will invade the UK any second now, and after waiting 7 months for an interview to get a student's work permit... Whiteness is a political construct and incredibly fluid if capital demands it.
wait so this was done to facilitate racism or hatred against these groups by taking them off the 'White' list for the purposes of generating capital for the ruling class?
It's a bit more varied and complicated than that, but when you look at the bottom line, yes. Foreign workers are often marginalised in order to be more easily exploited, or as a scapegoat for shitty worker rights for native people, as a way to divide a burgeoning labour movement etc.
When I did my work permit interview, the forms I needed to fill out had questions like "have you been part of a terrorist organisation or do you know people who have been" and so on. Mind you, at the time Bulgaria had been a EU member state for, like, 7 years. This gave me a better sense of the kind of indignities forced on our Middle Eastern and brown comrades by the imperialist dogs. Never been happier than when I got back home for good. Fuck TERF island.