Racial profiling that denies due process amounts to political exile

Evidence

Risk is read on the body. If it is true that the profile is one way to sort out who goes to the camp and who does not, then those marked as bearing an inherent capacity for disloyalty are not simply being profiled, but are in fact exiled from political community. This process, whereby to be profiled is to be denied due-process rights and to be detained indefinitely, shifts radically what racial profiling now means. The very concept of racial profiling seems inadequate to describe what actually happens to those whose race, read as origins, life histories, and religious practices, marks them as potential terrorists. — Sherene Razack, Casting Out, 85

Categorization

• DEFINE: Razack reframes racial profiling from a discriminatory policing practice into a mechanism of political exile — a conceptual shift that renames what is actually happening.
• DEEPTHINKING: The move from ‘profiling as discrimination’ to ‘profiling as exile from political community’ is a paradigm-level reframe of security jurisprudence, not a routine argument.