States free capital mobility while restricting the movement of racialized people
Evidence
Restrictions on capital movement and on the class of financial managers guaranteeing tapital flows increasingly have evaporated. At the same time, traffic cop states have maintained more or less firm restrictions on the movement and mobility of those marked as ethnoracially different or threatening: “Muslim or Arab terrorists,” “helpless (if not sometimes murderous) Africans,” “economically challenged or trafficking Central Americans,” “over-abundant Asians,” and indeed any and all mis-taken for these cut-out characters. — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 142
Categorization
- XREF: Connects directly to the differential treatment of capital versus labor mobility — parallels the law-merchant material on how institutions selectively enforce mobility and trust. — connects to: Free trade treaties free capital flows while criminalizing the displaced people they create — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education: Toward Diverse,…, 1409; Capital moves freely while ecologically dispossessed people become stationary displaced — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 114
- SEED: The ‘traffic cop state’ framing — states as policing who gets to move — is a strong essay angle on immigration policy as racialized mobility control.
Related
- The welfare state has transformed into a policing state of flows. (similarity 0.81)
- The state takes multiple guises to regulate migration and bodies (similarity 0.78)