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Suitable Enemy, A: Racism, Migration and Islamophobia in Europe

Paperback by Fekete, Liz

Suitable Enemy, A: Racism, Migration and Islamophobia in Europe

£29.99

ISBN:
9780745327921
Publication Date:
20 Mar 2009
Language:
English
Publisher:
Pluto Press
Pages:
272 pages
Format:
Paperback
For delivery:
Temporarily unavailable
Suitable Enemy, A: Racism, Migration and Islamophobia in Europe

Description

This book presents a comprehensive overview of EU immigration, asylum, race and security policies. Liz Fekete argues that at the same time as the EU introduces selective migration policies, it closes its borders against asylum seekers who were the first victims of the growth of the security state which now embraces Muslims. She explores the way in which antiterrorist legislation has been used to evict undesirable migrants, how deportation policies commodify and dehumanise the most vulnerable and how these go hand in hand with evolving forms of racism, particularly Islamophobia. At the heart of the book is an examination of xenoracism - a non-colour coded form of institutionalised racism - where migrants who do not assimilate, or who are believed to be incapable of assimilation, are excluded.

Contents

Acknowledgements Foreword by A. Sivanandan Introduction Xeno-Racism and the Security State 1. The Emergence of Xeno-racism 2. Anti-Muslim Racism and the Security State Islamophobia and Accusatory Processes 3. Enlightened Fundamentalism? Immigration, Feminism and the Right 4. The New McCarthyism Detention and Deportation 5. The Deportation Machine 6. 'Speech Crime' and Deportation The fight for Civil Rights 7. They Are Children Too 8. Islamophobia, Youth Resistance and the Meaning of Liberty Notes to the text Index

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