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Targeted Transnationals : The State, the Media, and Arab Canadians.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Press, 2013Copyright date: ©2013Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (285 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780774824422
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Targeted TransnationalsDDC classification:
  • 323.1192/707109051
LOC classification:
  • F1035.A7 -- T37 2013eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part 1: State Practices and Policies -- 1 "Arab" Migration to Canada -- 2 The Securitization and Racialization of Arabs in Canada's Immigration and Citizenship Policies -- 3 Creeping beyond Balance? -- 4 On the Borderlines of Human and Citizen -- Part 2: Intersecting Discourses and Representations -- 5 Multiculturalism and Discrimination in Canada and Quebec -- 6 A Mediated Relationship -- 7 "Framing" the Toronto 18 -- Part 3: Voices and Resistance -- 8 Contesting Arab and Muslim Representations in Private Television and Radio in Canada -- 9 Media and the (De)Construction of Al-Ghorba for Arab Canadians -- 10 "How Do We Speak?" -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Contributors -- Index.
Summary: This book shows how, in the post-9/11 era, Arab Canadians have become "targeted transnationals" through racialized immigration and security policies as well as negative media representations that legitimize their homogenization and racialization.
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Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part 1: State Practices and Policies -- 1 "Arab" Migration to Canada -- 2 The Securitization and Racialization of Arabs in Canada's Immigration and Citizenship Policies -- 3 Creeping beyond Balance? -- 4 On the Borderlines of Human and Citizen -- Part 2: Intersecting Discourses and Representations -- 5 Multiculturalism and Discrimination in Canada and Quebec -- 6 A Mediated Relationship -- 7 "Framing" the Toronto 18 -- Part 3: Voices and Resistance -- 8 Contesting Arab and Muslim Representations in Private Television and Radio in Canada -- 9 Media and the (De)Construction of Al-Ghorba for Arab Canadians -- 10 "How Do We Speak?" -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Contributors -- Index.

This book shows how, in the post-9/11 era, Arab Canadians have become "targeted transnationals" through racialized immigration and security policies as well as negative media representations that legitimize their homogenization and racialization.

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