Terrifying Muslims : race and labor in the South Asian diaspora

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Terrifying Muslims : race and labor in the South Asian diaspora

Junaid Rana

Duke University Press, 2011

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-220) and index

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Terrifying Muslims highlights how transnational working classes from Pakistan are produced, constructed, and represented in the context of American empire and the recent global War on Terror. Drawing on ethnographic research that compares Pakistan, the Middle East, and the United States before and after 9/11, Junaid Rana combines cultural and material analyses to chronicle the worldviews of Pakistani labor migrants as they become part of a larger global racial system. At the same time, he explains how these migrants' mobility and opportunities are limited by colonial, postcolonial, and new imperial structures of control and domination. He argues that the contemporary South Asian labor diaspora builds on and replicates the global racial system consolidated during the period of colonial indenture. Rana maintains that a negative moral judgment attaches to migrants who enter the global labor pool through the informal economy. This taint of the illicit intensifies the post-9/11 Islamophobia that collapses varied religions, nationalities, and ethnicities into the threatening racial figure of "the Muslim." It is in this context that the racialized Muslim is controlled by a process that beckons workers to enter the global economy, and stipulates when, where, and how laborers can migrate. The demonization of Muslim migrants in times of crisis, such as the War on Terror, is then used to justify arbitrary policing, deportation, and criminalization.

目次

Acknowledgments vii Introduction. Migrants in a Neoliberal World 1 Part I. Racializing Muslims 1. Islam and Racism 25 2. Racial Panic, Islamic Peril, and Terror 50 3. Imperial Targets 74 Part II. Globalizing Labor 4. Labor Diaspora and the Global Racial System 97 5. Migration, Illegality, and the Security State 134 6. The Muslim Body 153 Conclusion. Racial Feelings in the Post-9/11 World 174 Notes 181 References 203 Index 221

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