Citizenship and Identity
Assuming certain individuals come from somewhere else, belong somewhere else?
What is extraterritiorialization?
This term describes the practice of targeting people based on perceived race, ethnicity, or religion, especially after 9/11.
What is racial profiling?
Describes how the U.S. sees Middle Eastern and Asian communities as dangerous or threatening.
What is American Orientalism?
The concept where immigrants are "agents maintaining diasporic ties" AND where a state or its people "brand its citizens with foreign membership and extraterritorializing them through violence"
What is transnationalism?
Leads as an example and justifies the acceptability of racial profiling
What is the U.S. government?
They are a group of people who are seen as threatening, even when they are U.S. citizens.
Who are Muslim, Arab, and South Asian Americans?
The type of citizenship through assumptions on identity.
What is Interpellation?
What role did the law play in constructing the "terrorist" as a racialized figure, according to Volpp?
What is Law created policies targeting specific nationalities?
The idea that immigrants need to be saved/civilized
What is White Man's Burden?
If a similar crisis happened today, what groups might be "identified as threats and disidentified as citizens"? What patterns from Volpp's analysis might repeat?
What is any group racialized as the enemy?
Which president characterized the war against terrorism as a battle for "civilization"?
What is President George Bush?
American Orientalism references North Africa, the Middle East, East Asia, and this country collectively as the "East"?
What is Turkey?
This is the article’s main tension: the difference between being legally American and being seen as a “true American.”
What is citizenship vs. identity?
If a similar crisis happened today, what groups might be "identified as threats and disidentified as citizens"? What patterns from Volpp's analysis might repeat?
What is any group racialized as the enemy?
The name of the US initiative targeting removal of non-citizens who have received deportation letters but haven't left who were from areas in which there has been "...Al Qaeda terrorist presence or activity."
What is Absconder Apprehension Initiative?