Anti-terror discourse functions to police transnational migration by racializing Muslims

Evidence

Narratives of migration, illegality, and criminality are central to the explanatory frameworks that attempt to comprehend terrorism and thus to police transnational migration. The complex global system based on the concept of race; labor migration; neoliberalism; and imperial, colonial, and capitalist systems of exploitation are masked in this process of representing terror, race, and migration. The terms that connect terror to migration are based on establishing the figure of the Muslim as a racialized subject both in the U.S. racial formation and in the broader global racial system. — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims, 336

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to my existing framework on moral panics and how discursive frames mask material economic exploitation — parallels Cohen’s moral panic categories. — connects to: Invasion-era stereotypes of foreign Muslims double as domestic anti-immigrant racism — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 242; White domestic terrorism still shapes immigration policy because Arabs are visually raced as terrorists; The War on Terror recycled COINTELPRO-era racial policing tactics against Muslims — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 263 (+1 more)