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July 8, 2026Environment and Planning D Society and SpaceOpen Access

Racialisation in flux: Geographies of difference in a platformised taxicab trade

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SKSalman Khan

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Ethnographic fieldwork investigates racial differentiation in taxicab trade, highlighting platform capitalism's impact.

Key Points

  • This research examines how digital platforms like Uber reshape racialisation in the taxicab industry.
  • Conducted ethnographic fieldwork with hackney carriage and Uber drivers in North East England.
  • Analyzed historical racialisation experiences of Newcastle-born British Asian cab drivers.
  • Explored encounters between various racialised groups in the context of platform economy.
  • Identified enduring racialisation experiences among British Asian taxicab drivers.
  • Showed how economic competition from platform systems redirects racialisation towards migrant workers.
  • Demonstrated the interplay between racial differentiation and platform capitalism in urban environments.

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Salman Khan (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a4deabbd2ea289ef6284413https://doi.org/10.1177/02637758261466651
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