Assimilationist integration rhetoric is productive for war-on-terror surveillance logic.

Evidence

Assimilationist discourses are not only the basis to anti-immigrant positions but are eminently productive for the ‘war on terror.’ Multiculturalism, the argument goes, ‘has been instrumental in breeding terrorists by steeping them in their own culture and so alienating them from British society.’ The best anti-terrorist move, then, is to forcibly integrate citizens, a logic that conveniently ignores the role that injustice, military occupations, and racism play in producing terrorists. — Sherene Razack, Casting Out, 382