Neoliberalism, Racism, and the War on Drugs in Canada

Part of a special issue on immigration rights and national insecurity. The writer discusses the relationship between the drug war and neoliberal policy in Canada. Using a political-economy framework, he underlines the central role played by drug prohibition in the street-based operationalization of...

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Main Author: Gordon, Todd (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2006
In: Social justice
Year: 2006, Volume: 33, Issue: 1, Pages: 59-78
Online Access: Volltext (Publisher)
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Keywords:
Racism
Immigrants
Capitalist societies
Government Policy
Socioeconomics
Political economic analysis
Drug Addiction
Neoliberalism
Drug traffic
Drug control
Race relations in Canada
Race Relations
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Summary:Part of a special issue on immigration rights and national insecurity. The writer discusses the relationship between the drug war and neoliberal policy in Canada. Using a political-economy framework, he underlines the central role played by drug prohibition in the street-based operationalization of neoliberal restructuring and connects this policing dynamic to the historical role played by drug criminalization in Canada. He places the discussion in the context of the case of the criminalization of khat, and with it the Somali community in Toronto. He concludes that as long as the racialized production of bourgeois order is a key element of state power in Canada, the probability of the drug war continuing in some form is quite high.
ISSN:2327-641X