Gulf labor migrants are imagined as the same populations threatening the West

Evidence

In this sense, terror and violence are coded as part of a spectrum of general disenchantment among Muslims that requires vigilance. It is with this in mind that the established rubric of the domestic War on Terror mandates that migrants from the Muslim world become the primary targets of controlling terror. Specifically, South Asian workers in the Arab Gulf are imagined as the same migrants who go to Europe and North America, and as part of an endlessly expanding threat of terrorism. — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims, 411

Categorization

• SEED: Essay angle: the collapsing distinction between Gulf guest workers and Western terror suspects — how ‘endlessly expanding threat’ replaces any actual evidence of movement.