From the 'Old' to the 'New' Suspect Community: Examining the Impacts of Recent UK Counter-Terrorist Legislation

Pantazis, Christina; Pemberton, Simon

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“…As Gargi Bhattacharyya (2008: 74) notes: 'Minority communities are challenged to prove their allegiance and integration, however long they have been settled in the 'host' nation'. This is particularly the case with the Muslim community of Britain who, for over a decade, have occupied a position as the dangerous minority and the primary subject group of counter-terrorism policy, legislation and state surveillance (Gilmore 2012;Pantazis and Pemberton 2009). According to Bhattacharyya, the othering of the Muslim male has intensified through the period of the 'war on terror', with a focus on perceived (inferior) cultural difference and (illiberal) attitudes to sex:…”

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Rotherham, Rochdale, and the Racialised Threat of the ‘Muslim Grooming Gang’

Tufail

2015

Int J for Crime, Justice & Social Democracy

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For over a decade, British Muslims have been at the forefront of political, media and societal concerns in regards to terrorism, radicalisation, women's rights, segregation and, most recently, the sexual exploitation and abuse of young women. Demonised, marginalised and criminalised due to inflammatory political rhetoric, inaccurate, irresponsible and sensationalist media reporting, discriminatory counter terrorism policies and legislation and state surveillance, British Muslims have emerged as a perceived racialised threat. This has continued apace with the onset of the Rochdale and Rotherham 'grooming' child sexual abuse scandals which in popular discourse have been dominated by representations focusing on race, ethnicity and the dangerous masculinities of Muslim men. This disproportionate and racist narrative served to both frame and limit the debate relating to the sexual exploitation and violence experienced by young female victims at a pivotal moment when the issue had been brought to national attention. This article compares and contrasts the representations and discourse of racialised and non-racialised reporting of child sexual abuse and situates the 'grooming' scandals in the context of anti-Muslim racism. It argues that the development of the British Muslim as a racialised threat is a current and on-going legacy of colonialism in which this group experiences discriminatory 'othering' processes resulting in their marginalisation.

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Rotherham, Rochdale, and the Racialised Threat of the ‘Muslim Grooming Gang’

Tufail

2015

Int J for Crime, Justice & Social Democracy

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“…Criminalizing muslims through counter-terror measures For clarity, it is important I declare that this article does not dismiss the fact that in recent years there have been a number of terrible incidents in the United Kingdom and elsewhere which have been carried out by groups and individuals declaring themselves to be acting in the name of Islam, for instance, the Counter-terror measures have been criticized for their overfocus on all Muslims, and for their simplistic, generic and onedimensional notions of Islam (Kundnani, 2009;Pantazis and Pemberton, 2009;Bonino, 2013;Patel, 2017). This has presented the commonsensical view that extremism and radicalization is inherent within Muslim culture.…”

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“…Brown bodies are once again openly popularized as unruly. Within the terrorist narrative, brown bodies are seen as more dangerous, given that they are presented as an even more dangerous type of terrorist, in comparison with the terrorist of previous eras (Pantazis and Pemberton, 2009). According to this logic, Muslims need to be more closely watched, scrutinized and controlled, even if this is at the sacrifice of their fundamental human rights.…”

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It’s not about security, it’s about racism: counter-terror strategies, civilizing processes and the post-race fiction

Patel

2017

Palgrave Commun

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Using a range of international examples, this article examines the ways in which members of the black and minority ethnic population continue to be viewed as problematic and deviant, challenging the claim that we are now living in a post-race state. The article considers how race and racism are still in reality, used to socially order society-and specifically criminalize those black and minority ethnic groups of (real or perceived) Muslim background-what I call "brown bodies". Turning its focus to the United Kingdom, although offering an analysis applicable to other countries with similar racialized conditions, the article discusses how sub-measures under current counter-terror discourse not only serve to control and regulate Muslim populations, but more so, the civilizing undertone of its Western (or, British) values and national security narrative continue to normalize and perpetuate antiMuslim sentiment and construct Muslims as "suspect" communities at every possible opportunity. This process draws on a "post-colonial fantasy" and re-uses established practices of "race-consumption" to control brown bodies. This ensures that anti-Muslim racism remains a key feature of contemporary British society. The article ends noting its support for that body of literature that critiques the claim that we are now living in a post-race state. This article is published as part of a collection on racism in counter-terrorism and surveillance discourse.

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“…As part of the expansion of state securitization in the context of the War on Terror a whole host of measures have been passed to inhibit and restrict everyday citizenship, most notably through the Prevent agenda (O'Toole et al 2016) and the burgeoning literature on counter terrorist policing has indicated the racialized dimensions of these processes (Choudhury and Fenwick 2011;Fekete 2004;Kundnani 2014) including the appropriation of racial profiling and community surveillance practices for creating suspect communities (Pantazis and Pemberton 2009). While passport removals reflect another way in which citizenship is exposed as a conditional status for racially marginal subjects, there is little known about the specific detail, process and conditions via which individual passports are being removed under the remit of counter-terrorism policing.…”

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Unmaking citizens: passport removals, pre-emptive policing and the reimagining of colonial governmentalities

Kapoor

Narkowicz

2017

Ethnic and Racial Studies

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With the intensifying securitization of Western borders in the global War on Terror citizenship rights are increasingly fragile. Measures introduced by the British government to deal with the terrorist threat at home include citizenship deprivation, temporary exclusion orders as well as passport removals. Whilst citizenship deprivation has provoked critique for its potential violations of international human rights conventions on statelessness, cancellations of passports have not been subjected to the same kind of critique. Drawing on recent debates and interview data we demonstrate the alignment of citizenship deprivation and passport removals and conclude that these measures serve the same goal: of unmaking citizens. In this paper, we discuss findings from novel empirical research with individuals who have been removed of their British passports to illuminate the racialized dynamics of this process and the reconfiguration of racial governmentalities.

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From the 'Old' to the 'New' Suspect Community: Examining the Impacts of Recent UK Counter-Terrorist Legislation

Cited by 324 publications

References 28 publications

Rotherham, Rochdale, and the Racialised Threat of the ‘Muslim Grooming Gang’

Rotherham, Rochdale, and the Racialised Threat of the ‘Muslim Grooming Gang’

It’s not about security, it’s about racism: counter-terror strategies, civilizing processes and the post-race fiction

Unmaking citizens: passport removals, pre-emptive policing and the reimagining of colonial governmentalities

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