(en) France, Alternative Libertaire AL #225 - Racism and Work: Systemic Racism in the service of capital (fr)

Undocumented immigrant es postcolonial French and French-es from colonization, Roma: 
everyone know three decades forcing massive casualization, with degrees and constraints of 
different natures to become a hand of precarious work. Systemic Racism in the service of 
capital, must be destroyed. ---- We are seeing more and more regulation and ethnically 
segmented labor market, with reinvestment of the colonial imagination that seeks to 
legitimize it. The sociologist Abdelmalek Sayad immigration explained that the immigrant-e 
is primarily defined as pure labor before being considered a person holds rights. Today, 
nothing has changed and this definition also covers national and racialized Roma. The 
classical function of immigration is to be an adjustment variable.

More precarious than the rest of the world of work, with fewer opportunities of 
resistance, immigration is used to release the national labor sectors and workplaces 
toughest, flexible and dangerous. Concessions to national workers have been achieved at 
the expense of the particular component of the immigrant working class. For this to be 
possible, racism as ideological tool that serves the working world accept discriminatory 
treatment against one of its components and thereby prevent the consciousness of a 
community of interest [ 1 ].

The ideal figure of undocumented

While maintaining all of these traditional functions, the contemporary immigration in a 
context of neoliberal globalization and postcolonial. Two new figures emerge: the figure 
of the undocumented and the young born of colonization [ 2 ]. Undocumented are the ideal 
figure: it had no right, subject to the absolute instability, they are forced to sell 
their labor power in any conditions: hiring the task or the day, total flexibility , no 
load and indirect wages. All this is made ??possible by the construction of a state legal 
and ideological favorable. The call to undocumented data has become a systemic economic 
sectors - agriculture, building, catering, cleaning, textile - and tends to spread to 
other sectors. Precariousness of organized immigration law and foreign forces foreign 
employees to accept positions that do not correspond to their qualifications (eg doctors) 
but status: hiring minimum wage, depending on the residence permit renewal, etc..

The young precarious from the colonization

The new precariat consists overwhelmingly of young French men and women from the 
settlement. Es overrepresented in the most precarious sectors and more flexible, they are 
the first affected by the new precarious contracts: Temporary, part-time, alternating 
placement, temporary recurrent, seasonal [ 3 ]. Discrimination to the advancement and 
promotion more precarious as more populations. The International Labour Office has found 
that France, in 2009, four out of five employers discriminate based on the origin and 
successive reports by the INSEE confirm the pervasiveness of such discrimination [ 4 ]. 
These discriminations involved in submitting these populations precarious work. On the 
other hand, the process of impoverishment, which leads to an overrepresentation of 
racialized prison-es, their book continues the role of workers and workers bondsmen to 
thank you in jail. The generation that grew up with the coming show siblings graduates but 
insecure or suffer the consequences of poverty: crime, drugs, prison, death. The refusal 
of the new generations to be assigned to these places led to the radicalization of racist 
and integrationist right and left.

Ethnicisation reading grids

To make this possible, insecurity, we need a new ideological discourse, producer of 
legitimation. Islamophobia, the stigmatization of Roma, the construction of "new 
barbarians suburban" helps justify the unequal treatment. It then passes through an 
ideological dimension that tries to ethnicize all the explanations. Integrationist and 
assimilationist discourse at the heart of this ideology inequality experienced are not 
apprehended as a result of a social position assigned but as a consequence of a lack of 
adaptation to French society [ 5 ]. The upward mobility of some of racialized national is 
then manipulated, through the staging media and political success by the demonization of 
his origin or his community. The overall message is clear: you assimilate and made ?? 
allegiance to the Republic to succeed.

This ideological dimension and diversity of legal statutes to divide all the people 
affected by the state racism.

Which answers the social movement?

Successive governments as well as the extreme right - soralienne example - trying to 
divide racialized populations by designating scapegoats among them: stigmatization of 
undocumented immigrants, the "Islamo-scum", or Roma. To destroy these divisions, it must 
be demonstrated that these populations are all victims of the same racist system against 
which they must unite and fight. Analysis of the various statutes and benefit drawn by the 
principal must be made and brought in unions. The aim is to combat discrimination, 
analyzed as systemic and therefore requiring claims and collective struggles. The 
experience of strikes undocumented or recent strikes women are examples to follow and 
spread. The strike is a means of pressure to make fundamental racist claims, including 
those outside the workplace, and to converge with other social demands.

This is mainly to make more visible the specific demands of the movements of immigration 
and avoid the pitfalls of a speech sometimes too broad social movement underestimating the 
systemic racism reproductive factors in favor of capital.

Nicolas Pasadena (commission racist)

Racist discrimination: a systemic

Most definitions of discrimination based on a legal approach to reduce discrimination in 
two categories: direct and indirect.

Direct discrimination: discriminatory act intentionally or unconsciously, may be 
motivated by racism or ideological racism, prejudice.

Indirect discrimination: treatment without intentionality racist (apparently neutral 
criterion) but giving unequal treatment disabling one or more individuals of a minority 
group (eg children preferential hiring managers giving unequal recruitment, also if the 
people of foreign are underrepresented among managers, you'll see a de facto 
discrimination against young people of foreign origin).

Systemic discrimination resulting, in turn, the existence of social inequalities 
historically constituted that produce and reproduce unequal social places based 
membership. Even if it is through direct and indirect discrimination they occur, they have 
a base in the functioning of the social system. The three forms of discrimination are 
intimately linked and mutually reinforcing contributing to the operation and maintenance 
of the system.

Source: Said Bouamama, Jessy Cormont, Yvon Fotia, Dictionary of dominations , Syllepse 
Editions, 2012.

[ 1 ] Bouamama Said, classes and popular areas: poverty, discrimination and ethnicization 
, swan Edition, 2009.

[ 2 ] Bouamama Said, classes and popular areas: poverty, discrimination and ethnicization, 
swan Edition, 2009.

[ 3 ] Bouamama Said, classes and popular areas: poverty, discrimination and ethnicization, 
swan Edition, 2009.

[ 4 ] 4. INSEE, "Immigrants and descendants of immigrants in France," 2012, available 
www.insee.fr

[ 5 ] Bouamama Said, classes and popular areas: poverty, discrimination and ethnicization, 
swan Edition, 2009.