{"product_id":"terrifying-muslims-9780822349112","title":"Terrifying Muslims","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEthnographic research in Pakistan, the Middle East, and the United States helps to explain how transnational working classes from Pakistan are produced in the context of American empire and its War on Terror.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eTerrifying Muslims\u003c\/i\u003e will be of great interest for those interested in a better understanding of the cultural and historical roots of the Pakistani diaspora. It will also appeal to those seeking to explore potential intersections between the fields of critical race studies and anthropology.” - Roberto J. González, \u003ci\u003eJournal of Anthropological Research\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eTerrifying Muslims\u003c\/i\u003e is a timely and necessary project, one that makes important interventions into both U.S. ethnic studies and South Asian studies. Junaid Rana persuasively shows that the current War on Terror and the Islamophobia that buttresses it can only be understood through a long historical view that situates current migrations in relation to colonial forms of labor exploitation such as slavery and indentureship.”—\u003cb\u003eGayatri Gopinath\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eImpossible Desires: Queer Diasporas and South Asian Public Cultures\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Junaid Rana’s \u003ci\u003eTerrifying Muslims\u003c\/i\u003e is a road map against Islamophobia. Muslim migrants do not travel to erect minarets alone. They come because their homelands are wrecked by transnational capital, they come in search of work and dignity; their presence signals only this, and not some cataclysmic story of the clash of civilizations. Rana rehabilitates the ordinariness of migration in the context of forces that insist on making the migrant extraordinary. Crucial reading for terrible times.”—\u003cb\u003eVijay Prashad\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Darker Nations: A People’s History of the Third World\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This book is an important, innovative, and much-needed intervention into current debates about migration, globalization, the War on Terror, Muslim identities, racialization, and labor. It offers a transnational analysis connecting South Asia, the Middle East, and the United States, as well as an astute framework linking questions of religion, race, class, sovereignty, and gender. In addition, it fills a glaring gap in Asian American and South Asian studies, where there has been little research on the Pakistani diaspora.”—\u003cb\u003eSunaina Marr Maira\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eMissing: Youth, Citizenship, and Empire after 9\/11\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eTerrifying Muslims\u003c\/i\u003e will be of great interest for those interested in a better understanding of the cultural and historical roots of the Pakistani diaspora. It will also appeal to those seeking to explore potential intersections between the fields of critical race studies and anthropology.” -- Roberto J. González * Journal of Anthropological Research *\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eTerrifying Muslims\u003c\/i\u003e stands out in a crowded field. This is one of very few books to make consistently the point that the problem of Islamophobia is not new. . . . This book will no doubt prove critically important to anyone interested in race, labor, immigration, or Islamophobia.\" -- Erik Love * Contemporary Sociology *\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eTerrifying Muslims\u003c\/i\u003e is an exemplary study and should be required reading for anyone interested in understanding the complexities of transnational labor movements and the predicament of Muslims in the early 21st century.”  -- Ahmed Afzal * American Anthropologist *\u003cbr\u003e“Junaid Rana has written a timely book that historically situates the concept of ‘race’ to illuminate the bind between religion and race in the construction of the racialised ‘Muslim’. . . . \u003ci\u003eTerrifying Muslims\u003c\/i\u003e is an insightful work as relevant for human rights activists as it is for historians, South Asian specialists, students of migration, policy-makers and popular culture enthusiasts.” -- Mamta Sachan Kumar * South Asia *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eTerrifying Muslims\u003c\/i\u003e makes a valuable contribution to the growing literature on race and religion.... In sum, this is an excellent book and would be of interest to scholars across a number of disciplines.\" -- Beesan Sarrouh * Journal of International Migration and Integration *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments vii\u003cbr\u003e Introduction. Migrants in a Neoliberal World 1\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Racializing Muslims\u003cbr\u003e 1. Islam and Racism 25\u003cbr\u003e 2. Racial Panic, Islamic Peril, and Terror 50\u003cbr\u003e 3. Imperial Targets 74\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Globalizing Labor\u003cbr\u003e 4. Labor Diaspora and the Global Racial System 97\u003cbr\u003e 5. Migration, Illegality, and the Security State 134\u003cbr\u003e 6. The Muslim Body 153\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion. Racial Feelings in the Post-9\/11 World 174\u003cbr\u003e Notes 181\u003cbr\u003e References 203\u003cbr\u003e Index 221","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406064099671,"sku":"9780822349112","price":22.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822349112.jpg?v=1730494405","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/terrifying-muslims-9780822349112","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}