Book contents
- Islamophobia and the Law
- Islamophobia and the Law
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Note on Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Race and Citizenship
- 1 The Citizen and the Terrorist
- 2 Race, Civil Rights, and Immigration Law after September 11, 2001: The Targeting of Arabs and Muslims
- 3 Constructing Good Aliens and Good Citizens: Legitimizing the War on Terror(ism)
- 4 A Rage Shared by Law: Post–September 11 Racial Violence as Crimes of Passion
- Part II The Politics of Islamophobia in the Courts
- Part III Islamophobia in Criminal Law and National Security Law
- Part IV Law, Society, and Islamophobia
- Index
3 - Constructing Good Aliens and Good Citizens: Legitimizing the War on Terror(ism)
from Part I - Race and Citizenship
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 September 2020
- Islamophobia and the Law
- Islamophobia and the Law
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Note on Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Race and Citizenship
- 1 The Citizen and the Terrorist
- 2 Race, Civil Rights, and Immigration Law after September 11, 2001: The Targeting of Arabs and Muslims
- 3 Constructing Good Aliens and Good Citizens: Legitimizing the War on Terror(ism)
- 4 A Rage Shared by Law: Post–September 11 Racial Violence as Crimes of Passion
- Part II The Politics of Islamophobia in the Courts
- Part III Islamophobia in Criminal Law and National Security Law
- Part IV Law, Society, and Islamophobia
- Index
Summary
The United States government’s declared and orchestrated war on terrorism has internal as well as external dimensions. Externally, it has identified or attempted to identify the terrorist threat with particular nation states, such as Afghanistan and Iraq. But much of the war has been fought internally. Because the enemy could reside anywhere, even within the United States and within those nation states that the United States would never accuse of sponsoring or even condoning terrorism, the war against terrorism requires allies to turn inward to rout out the enemy. For the United States at least, the revision and deployment of immigration law and policy has played an important role in that inward turn.
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- Islamophobia and the Law , pp. 56 - 76Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020
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