Dr Farid Hafez's latest article 'Make the World White Again: Notes on Race, Religion, and Immigration Across the Atlantic'

Dr Farid Hafez recently published an article in Rutgers Journal of Law and Religion, Volume 25

This essay analyzes the Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement as a contemporary iteration of white reconstruction—a historically recurring logic of rearticulating and restoring white supremacy in response to perceived demographic and cultural decline. 

Drawing on decolonial frameworks, it argues that the domestic and foreign policies of the 47th president’s administration represent not an aberration, but a coherent project to reorganize U.S. society around whiteness, Christian nationalism, and patriarchal hierarchy. 

Through an examination of immigration enforcement, education policy, and geopolitical realignments, the essay demonstrates how a racialized “whites first”-politics operates across multiple registers: deporting non-white populations while welcoming white South African refugees, weaponizing antisemitism discourse to suppress solidarity with Palestine, and tolerating the mass death of non-white populations globally. 

The essay further situates MAGA within a transatlantic context, arguing that far-right and centrist European responses to immigration reflect a shared civilizational anxiety rooted in the fear of Great Replacement.

The full article can be read here.