Journalistic terrorism narratives map labor migration onto an imagined terrorist geography.

Evidence

This context forms the basis for journalistic explanations of why Muslim youth living in foreign working-class neighborhoods are discontent and alienated; it also provides an imagined geography that connects Muslim workers in the Middle East to South Asia. — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims, 324

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the ‘making of a terrorist mind’ narrative critique; parallels Said’s Orientalism and the author’s broader project.
• SEED: Essay angle: how the biographical genre of the ‘terrorist profile’ silently re-tells labor migration as pre-crime evidence.