Monthly Archive: May 2017

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White noise: race, migration and the violent underground of democracy

Guest author Rogier van Reekum discusses Joris Luyendijk’s recent essay on migration and ‘listening to the people’. By ostentatiously ‘listening to the people’, representatives have kept on affirming that the decision on membership rest, in the end, with ‘the people’. They have left untouched the violent racialized underground of democracy.