Terror-cell framing erases migrant women and transnational family structures

Evidence

Framing Muslim bodies through race, gender, and sexuality has naturalized the idea of the male body as a terrorist and, indeed, a migrant. The process of exclusion has eliminated women and families from this narrative in favor of ideas of cell structures as the language of kinship and family structure—thus eclipsing the notion of a transnational family structure. — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims, 331

Categorization

• SEED: Article angle: how the metaphor of the ‘cell’ displaces real kinship networks in media coverage of South Asian migration, rendering family life invisible.