A suitable enemy : racism, migration and Islamophobia in Europe / Liz Fekete ; foreword by A. Sivanandan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fekete, Liz.

Contributor:

Śivanandana.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Racism--European Union countries.

Racism.

Islamophobia.

National security--European Union countries.

National security.

European Union countries--Emigration and immigration.

European Union countries.

European Union countries--Race relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (272 p.)

Place of Publication:

London : Pluto, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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:

The emergence of xeno-racism

Anti-Muslim racism and the security state

Enlightened fundamentalism? : Immigration, feminism and the Right

The new McCarthyism

The deportation machine

'Speech crime' and deportation

They are children too

Islamophobia, youth resistance and the meaning of liberty.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781783713929

1783713925

9781849644075

1849644071

OCLC:

658051828