Muslim deportations function as a constitutive logic of the neoliberal imperial state

Evidence

In its e√ort to frame these priorities, the U.S. government intensified the use of deportation and other kinds of forced removal to purge its populace of potential threats and criminals. The specific practice of removing Muslim bodies from the U.S. nation-state has led one scholar to argue that deportations represent a moral economy that is ”a constitutive logic of the neoliberal, imperial state” (Maira 2007, 40). Others, echoing critiques of U.S. rhetoric, have called this form of racialized state violence simply ”the deportation terror” (Bu√ 2008). — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims, 761

Categorization

• SHARE: The specific coinage ‘deportation terror’ as a label for racialized removal is a nerdy academic tidbit worth sending to someone working on immigration law or surveillance studies.
• XREF: connects to: Radicalization theories justify treating Muslims as an imperial scapegoat class; the MOC “The Enemy-Making Machine: How Ourselves, the True, and Every Other Are Built from War”