Refugee receptions during the Ukraine war were racially stratified by whiteness

Evidence

His message was clear. “European” meant “white.” Which together stood for everything wholly and “relatively civilized.” Unlike Iraq or Afghanistan, the two nations decimated by two decades of American war and terror, which represented bastions of incivility, extremism, and “forever war.” Immigrants fleeing these nations, and refugees flung across the world, carried the threat of terror with them. Stained with this stigma and devoid of the whiteness held by Ukrainian refugees, they were cast as undesirables by the very nations that opened their borders and arms to the blue-eyed and blond-haired victims of the Russian siege. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1203

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• XREF: Links to the ongoing global Islamophobia synthesis the reader wants alongside Iftikhar’s account of post-9/11 and post-Trump policy regimes.