What is terrorism?

Rapin, Ami-Jacques

doi:10.1080/19434472.2010.512155

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“…In 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court began to use the term "noncitizen" in place of "alien" in many of its opinions. 14 Other federal courts have adopted the same approach, explicitly finding that the term "noncitizen" is more appropriate than "alien" when referring to a person of other-than-U.S. nationality, notwithstanding the fact that the term "alien" is the primary term applied in the Immigration and Nationality Act. 15 Moreover, the U.S. Library of Congress stopped using the term "alien" in its headings in 2016, stating that, "the phrase 'illegal aliens' has become pejorative."…”

Section: Dhs: Its Missions Interactions and Terminologymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Thus, many of the terms and phrases that we focused on, and that we queried our interviewees about (See Table 5.1), are not part of the formal lexicon at DHS. However, there are legal lexicons-such as the Immigration and Nationality Act itself (which contains the term "alien," for example) 14 -that can prompt perceptions of bias and impart offense or insult if they are not properly contextualized. These terms, and their iterations, include "alien," "extremists," and "terrorism."…”

Section: The Existing Dhs Lexiconmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…13 Call Me Latine, webpage, undated. 14 Ana Gonzalez-Barrera, "The Ways Hispanics Describe Their Identity Vary Across Immigrant Generations," Pew Research Center, September 24, 2020. it has not yet entered widespread usage. However, recently the phrase Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) has also been used by the federal government.…”

Section: Asian American Aapi Apida and Aanhpimentioning

confidence: 99%

“…As noted in the research literature on organizational management, these are instances where organizational culture can overwhelm attempts at change management by DHS leadership. 14…”

Section: Leadership Mattersmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Language, Labels, and the DHS Lexicon: Analysis to Support a More-Inclusive Lexicon for Securing the Homeland

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and its various operational components and support offices, have used terminology to refer to people in certain racial, ethnic, national, and religious groups. Many of these terms were acceptable during an earlier era but have since been viewed by many in government, the public, and the communities with which DHS interacts as disrespectful, noninclusive, and not reflective of important equity considerations. The DHS Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties (CRCL) requested the Homeland Security Operational Analysis Center's (HSOAC's) assistance to examine the department's use of such terminology in its documents and procedures, identify ways to improve it, and to create an organizational culture that supports the lasting implementation of updated terminology.Specifically, CRCL seeks research and analysis to inform its participation in these and future efforts. CRCL will apply the results of this research and analysis to develop potential recommendations for the Secretary and DHS component and office leaders in accordance with its statutory mission to provide policy advice to DHS leadership on civil rights and civil liberties issues. The objective of this report is to provide CRCL with a comprehensive analytic document containing guidance to enable DHS to update terminology that aligns with the proposed 2021 U.S. Citizenship Act, and to identify ways for DHS to foster an organizational culture that supports the ongoing use of the updated terminology in three principal categories: immigration, law enforcement/public-order policing, and terrorism/counterterrorism. The report will inform DHS efforts to develop a departmental lexicon consistent with current Executive Orders, the objectives of the U.S. Citizenship Act, and recently issued departmental policies regarding the use of certain terminology.

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Section: Dhs: Its Missions Interactions and Terminologymentioning

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Section: The Existing Dhs Lexiconmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Asian American Aapi Apida and Aanhpimentioning

confidence: 99%

“…As noted in the research literature on organizational management, these are instances where organizational culture can overwhelm attempts at change management by DHS leadership. 14…”

Section: Leadership Mattersmentioning

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“…In this sense, a critical discourse analysis of terrorism could suggest the phenomenon is a complex and sometimes Machiavellian element of power, whether it is exercised by the state or by a substate competitor. This is perhaps not the place to rehearse the very extensive debates around definitions of the "evanescent" notion of terrorism (Rapin, 2011), but merely to consider how states justify their levels of intelligence gathering capabilities in the face of supposed terrorist threats. At the conceptual level, consider, for example, how the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA), the official news agency of President Assad, describes all of the forces against which he is fighting as "terrorists", rather than the complex rainbow of insurgents, terrorists and freedom fighters described in Western media.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%