Global apartheid

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Fence between San Diego's border patrol offices in California (left) and Tijuana, Mexico. Militarized border controls that prevent people from the Global South from moving to the Global North are cited as an example of global apartheid

Global apartheid is a term used to describe how Global North countries are engaged in a project of "racialization, segregation, political intervention, mobility controls, capitalist plunder, and labor exploitation" affecting people from the Global South. Proponents of the concept argue that a close examination of the global system reveals it to be a kind of apartheid writ large with striking resemblance to the system of racial segregation in South Africa from 1948 to 1994, but based on borders and national sovereignty. [1]

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The concept of global apartheid has been developed by many researchers, including Titus Alexander, [2] Bruno Amoroso, [3] Patrick Bond, [4] Gernot Kohler, [5] Arjun Makhijiani, [6] Ali Mazuri, [7] [8] Vandana Shiva, [9] Anthony H. Richmond, [10] Joseph Nevins, [11] Muhammed Asadi, [12] Gustav Fridolin, [13] and many others. More recent references are in Falk's Re-Framing the International, [14] Amoroso's Global apartheid: globalisation, economic marginalisation, political destabilisation, [15] Peterson's A Critical Rewriting of Global Political Economy, [16] Jones's Crimes Against Humanity: A Beginner's Guide [17] and Global Human Smuggling by Kyle and Koslowski, [18] and New Social Movements in the African Diaspora: Challenging Global Apartheid. [19] and Bosak's Kairos, Crisis, and Global Apartheid [20]

Origin and use

The first use of the term may have been by Gernot Koehler in a 1978 Working Paper [21] for the World Order Models Project. In 1995, Koehler developed this in The Three Meanings of Global Apartheid: Empirical, Normative, Existential. [22]

Its best known use was by Thabo Mbeki, then-President of South Africa, in a 2002 speech, drawing comparisons of the status of the world's people, economy, and access to natural resources to the apartheid era. [23] Mbeki got the term from Titus Alexander, initiator of Charter 99, a campaign for global democracy, who was also present at the UN Millennium Summit and gave him a copy of Unravelling Global Apartheid.

Concept

Alexander argued that apartheid was a system of one-sided protectionism, in which the rich white minority used their political power to exclude the black majority from competing on equal terms, and warned that "the intensification of economic competition as a result of greater free trade is increasing political pressures for one-sided protectionism." [24]

Alexander claims there are numerous pillars of global apartheid including: [2]

More recently, scholars such as Thanh-Dam Truong and Des Gasper, inTransnational Migration and Human Security [25] and Kyle and Koslowsk in In Global Human Smuggling, analyse the rise of migrant smuggling and human trafficking in terms of the "structural violence generated by the escalation of border interdiction by states as part of the system of global apartheid." [26] Political demands for protectionism and physical barriers between the West and the Majority World, such as President Trump's wall between Mexico and the US as well as barriers round the EU [27] [28] follow similar economic pressures to those which entrenched apartheid in South Africa.

Law scholar Dimitry Kochenov argues that citizenship and nationality law is a form of apartheid that creates unequal protection that would never be accepted within the borders of any liberal democracy. "Like slavery, like sexism, like racism, citizenship knows no justification once you leave the purview of those few whom it unduly privileges." [29]

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  2. 1 2 Titus Alexander, Unravelling Global Apartheid: An Overview of World Politics, Polity Press, 1996
  3. ↑ Bruno Amoroso, Global Apartheid. Economics and Society, Federico Caffè Center, Roskilde, Città di Castello, 2004
  4. ↑ Patrick Bond, Against Global Apartheid: South Africa Meets the World Bank, IMF and International Finance, Zed Books Ltd; 2nd edition February 2004
  5. ↑ Gernot Kohler, Global Apartheid, Working Paper No 7, World Order Models Project, New York, 1978
  6. ↑ Arjun Makhijiani, From Global Capitalism to Economic Justice, Apex Press, 1992
  7. ↑ Ali Mazuri in conversation with Fouad Kalouche, Universalism, Global Apartheid, and Justice
  8. ↑ Adekeye Adebajo, James Jonah, Ali A. Mazrui and Tor Sellstrom, From Global Apartheid to Global Village: Africa and the United Nations, University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, Aug 2009; Leith Mullings, New Social Movements in the African Diaspora: Challenging Global Apartheid (Critical Black Studies) February 2010
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  10. ↑ Anthony H Richmond, Global Apartheid: Refugees, Racism and the New World Order, Oxford University Press, Ontario, 1995
  11. ↑ Joseph Nevins, Dying to Live: A Story of U.S. Immigration in an Age of Global Apartheid (Open Media), City Lights Books, October 2008
  12. ↑ Muhammed A. Asadi, Global Apartheid, iUniverse, February 2003
  13. ↑ Per Gustav Edvard Fridolin, Från Vittsjö till världen - om global apartheid och alla vi som vill någon annanstans (From Vittsjö to the world - about global apartheid and everyone of us that want to go somewhere), 2006
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  29. ↑ Vladimirovich Kochenov, Dimitry (2020). "Ending the passport apartheid. The alternative to citizenship is no citizenship—A reply". International Journal of Constitutional Law. 18 (4): 1525–1530. doi: 10.1093/icon/moaa108 .
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