Only Connect? Race Thinking, Migrant Mobility and the European City

Abstract

FROM THE INTRODUCTION: In his response to Griffiths, Michael Keith suggests that we ‘only connect’. He places the folk devil of the Foreign Criminal within the broader context of anti-migrant populism, and suggests that the tools we can use to analyse migration and its relation to ‘race relations’, fashioned in response to the Windrush generations, are in need of reworking. He argues in particular that as European governance has transformed national sovereignty through free movement of European Economic Area (EEA) workers, the politics of welfare systems are ‘up for grabs’ and that the metropolis is critical in the generation of collective subjects.