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Liz Fekete is one of the best analysts of the complexities of racism in Europe today. In showing how racism has been profoundly impacted by Islamophobia, the War on Terror, and by a 'xeno-racism' directed at undocumented migrants and asylum seekers, A Suitable Enemy is the major work we've been waiting for. An enormously accomplished and important book (Professor Avery Gordon, Department of Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara )
A Suitable Enemy shows how the extreme right captured the political initiative by portraying immigrants and asylum seekers as a threat to European security, identity and prosperity ... Liz Fekete presents an important analysis that should be used by anyone concerned about the real threats to human rights and democracy today. (Professor Stephen Castles International Migration Institute, University of Oxford )
Liz Fekete's work is an important and timely book. The author is addressing crucial issues helping the readers to understand how new kinds of racism, exclusion and power struggles are at work. Liz Fekete shows us how the far right discourses and policies are being more and more normalised ... She reveals the many dangers facing the European societies. (Professor Tariq Ramadan Senior Research Fellow, Oxford St Antony's College )
This book deserves a slow and careful reading. Liz Fekete reaches into the unique archives of knowledge ... and provides a clear, detailed and insightful road map for those who want to navigate and understand where, how and why current executive actions are reproducing ... This work of extraordinary thoroughness and clear, passionate moral insight provides a primer of unparalleled utility. (Gareth Peirce, civil rights lawyer )
A Suitable Enemy shows how the extreme right captured the political initiative by portraying immigrants and asylum seekers as a threat to European security, identity and prosperity ... Liz Fekete presents an important analysis that should be used by anyone concerned about the real threats to human rights and democracy today. (Professor Stephen Castles International Migration Institute, University of Oxford )
Liz Fekete's work is an important and timely book. The author is addressing crucial issues helping the readers to understand how new kinds of racism, exclusion and power struggles are at work. Liz Fekete shows us how the far right discourses and policies are being more and more normalised ... She reveals the many dangers facing the European societies. (Professor Tariq Ramadan Senior Research Fellow, Oxford St Antony's College )
This book deserves a slow and careful reading. Liz Fekete reaches into the unique archives of knowledge ... and provides a clear, detailed and insightful road map for those who want to navigate and understand where, how and why current executive actions are reproducing ... This work of extraordinary thoroughness and clear, passionate moral insight provides a primer of unparalleled utility. (Gareth Peirce, civil rights lawyer )
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Liz Fekete is a leading authority on issues of racism, Islamophobia and national security legislation. A Suitable Enemy draws on sixteen years of research to present a comprehensive overview of EU immigration, asylum, race and security policies.
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 anti-terrorist legislation has been used to evict undesirable migrants, how deportation policies commodify and de-humanise 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 xeno-racism -- 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.
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 anti-terrorist legislation has been used to evict undesirable migrants, how deportation policies commodify and de-humanise 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 xeno-racism -- 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.
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Readers who found Arun Kundnani's `The End of Tolerance' valuable will also value Liz Fekete's `A Suitable Enemy'. Like Kundnani, Fekete also researches for the Institute of Race Relations which is at the forefront of analysing and interpreting developments in racism and state policies on asylum and immigration.
Fekete starts by analysing the recent development of what has been termed xeno-racism - not simply xenophobia because not all foreigners are targeted but not classic racism because people who are white can be targeted but racism because it has a structured ideology, is institutionalised and borrows ideas and concepts from older forms of racism. It is the sort of racism directed at poor migrants and asylum seekers.
Fekete then looks at the way that a new `Enlightened fundamentalism' has arisen amongst many liberals in Europe. The notion that many immigrants suffer from a cultural deficit compared to Europeans - Europeans are tolerant, support gay and women's rights, are democratic. The immigrant, more specifically the Muslim immigrant lacks this civilised quality and is, in essence, a barbarian who can only be civilised by abandoning their culture and assimilating to the dominant and superior host culture. Fekete is here talking about the growth and respectability of anti-Muslim racism among European liberals.
Into the anti-migrant, anti-Muslim mix is added the growth of what Fekete terms `the European security state' whereby the state targets Muslims especially as a security risk and where many of the laws and practices used to combat immigration and asylum seekers mesh with those used to police what is perceived as a deviant community. Muslims are given a list of things they must do or believe in order that they, and only they, be accepted as equal `enlightened' citizens.
Fekete finishes by outlining ways in which anti-racist organisations and self organisation among ethnic minority and migrant groups can help combat the rise of this new form of racism.
The argument is persuasive and well presented. This book is recommended if you want to get up to speed with current debates about trends in racism.
Fekete starts by analysing the recent development of what has been termed xeno-racism - not simply xenophobia because not all foreigners are targeted but not classic racism because people who are white can be targeted but racism because it has a structured ideology, is institutionalised and borrows ideas and concepts from older forms of racism. It is the sort of racism directed at poor migrants and asylum seekers.
Fekete then looks at the way that a new `Enlightened fundamentalism' has arisen amongst many liberals in Europe. The notion that many immigrants suffer from a cultural deficit compared to Europeans - Europeans are tolerant, support gay and women's rights, are democratic. The immigrant, more specifically the Muslim immigrant lacks this civilised quality and is, in essence, a barbarian who can only be civilised by abandoning their culture and assimilating to the dominant and superior host culture. Fekete is here talking about the growth and respectability of anti-Muslim racism among European liberals.
Into the anti-migrant, anti-Muslim mix is added the growth of what Fekete terms `the European security state' whereby the state targets Muslims especially as a security risk and where many of the laws and practices used to combat immigration and asylum seekers mesh with those used to police what is perceived as a deviant community. Muslims are given a list of things they must do or believe in order that they, and only they, be accepted as equal `enlightened' citizens.
Fekete finishes by outlining ways in which anti-racist organisations and self organisation among ethnic minority and migrant groups can help combat the rise of this new form of racism.
The argument is persuasive and well presented. This book is recommended if you want to get up to speed with current debates about trends in racism.
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