Suspicion in security hearings targets who people are, not what they do

Evidence

As I show below, who people are is formulated in terms of an unchanging essence derived from their histories, associations, and religious practices, a constellation of invariant characteristics inherited from a culture, religion, and region. A race fiction thus grounds the nation and inheres in the power of the state to decide who is part of the kin group and who is not. — Sherene Razack, Casting Out, 77

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines how race fiction formulates identity as an unchanging essence rooted in culture, religion, and region.