The pains of racism and economic adversity in young Londoners' lives: sketching the contours. Issue 3 (7th February 2023)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Phillips, Coretta
• Is Part Of: Journal of ethnic and migration studies. Volume 49:Issue 3(2023)
• Page Start: 734
• Page End: 751
• Publication Date: 2023-02-07
• Subjects: Pains of racism -- racialisation -- economic disadvantage -- life story -- measuring racism; Ethnic relations -- Periodicals; Race relations -- Periodicals; Emigration and immigration -- Periodicals; Assimilation (Sociology) -- Periodicals; 305.8005
• DOI: 10.1080/1369183X.2020.1850246
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1369-183X

Abstract

ABSTRACT: This paper sketches an analytical framework to conceptualise the way racial power and socio-economic precarity impacts the everyday lives of young minority ethnic Londoners. Using life stories and photo-elicitation, it elucidates the pains of racialisation, racism, and economic marginalisation using and extending the metrics ( depth, breadth, looseness and tightness ) used in Crewe's (2011. "Depth, Weight, Tightness: Revisiting the Pains of Imprisonment." Punishment and Society 13 (5): 509–529. doi:10.1177/1462474511422172 ) conceptualisation of the contemporary pains of imprisonment. While there is no intention to imply a straightforward parallel between systems of penal power and racial power, the commonalities in the feelings evoked are stark in their affect and effect. This framework offers a means to register the different forms, gradations and intensities of racialising processes which are not easily captured by the singular concept of racism.