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Book Summary
"Terrifying Muslims" highlights how transnational working classes from Pakistan
are produced, constructed, and represented in the context of American empire and
the recent global War on Terror. Drawing on ethnographic research that compares
Pakistan, the Middle East, and the United States before and after 9/11, Junaid
Rana combines cultural and material analyses to chronicle the worldviews of
Pakistani labor migrants as they become part of a larger global racial system.
At the same time, he explains how these migrants' mobility and opportunities are
limited by colonial, postcolonial, and new imperial structures of control and
domination. He argues that the contemporary South Asian labor diaspora builds on
and replicates
ISBN-13
9780822349112
Language
English
Binding
Paper Back
Publisher
Duke University Press Books
Publishing Date
2011-05-03
Total Pages
264
Terrifying Muslims: Race And Labor In The South Asian Diaspora
"Terrifying Muslims" highlights how transnational working classes from Pakistan
are produced, constructed, and represented in the context of American empire and
the recent global War on Terror. Drawing on ethnographic research that compares
Pakistan, the Middle East, and the United States before and after 9/11, Junaid
Rana combines cultural and material analyses to chronicle the worldviews of
Pakistani labor migrants as they become part of a larger global racial system.
At the same time, he explains how these migrants' mobility and opportunities are
limited by colonial, postcolonial, and new imperial structures of control and
domination. He argues that the contemporary South Asian labor diaspora builds on
and replicates