Migrant-seeking-opportunity narratives get reframed as racialized terrorist threats

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 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

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 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: White domestic terror produced immigration crackdowns targeting Muslims and Latinos — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 257; Anti-terror discourse functions to police transnational migration by racializing Muslims — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims: Race and Labor in…, 336; Racial panic narratives shape immigration illegality and state targeting — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims: Race and Labor in…, 78 (+18 more)

Broader Connections

• Journalistic terrorism narratives map labor migration onto an imagined terrorist geography. #exemplifies (0.95) — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims, 324
• Journalistic explanations link Gulf migrant poverty to a transnational Muslim geography of terror #exemplifies (0.93)
• Anti-terror discourse functions to police transnational migration by racializing Muslims #expands (0.92) — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims, 336