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SUMMARY:'The Coloniality of Meritocracy' Simone Varriale
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DESCRIPTION:This presentation will discuss some key ideas from Simone Var
 riale's recent book\, Coloniality and Meritocracy in Unequal EU Migratio
 ns (BUP\, 2023)\, and some emerging ideas from ongoing fieldwork with Bl
 ack and minority ethnic Italian migrants living in the UK.\n\nDrawing on
  interviews with working and middle class\, white and Black Italians who
  moved to Britain after the 2008 economic crisis\, the presentation will
  explore the narratives of Northern 'meritocracy' and Southern 'backward
 ness' that inform migrants' motivations for moving abroad\, and how thes
 e narratives are experienced within classed\, racialised and gendered mi
 grations.\n\nSimone Varriale proposes to rethink meritocratic ideology a
 s a form of 'coloniality'\, namely\, a social imaginary that reproduces 
 narratives of ethnic and racial difference between European centres and 
 peripheries\, and between Europe and its others.\n\nHowever\, he will al
 so address the epistemic limits of this imaginary - how it resonates (or
  not) within unequal social biographies - and the risks of using decolon
 ial perspectives in ways that reproduce both white and Black victimhood\
 , as well as overly homogeneous social representations of 'Italians'\, '
 Southern Europeans' and 'EU migrants'.
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