Immigrants from Pakistan, Egypt, India, and Palestine who were racially profiled and detained following the September 11 attacks tell their personal stories in a collection which explores themes of transnationalism, racialization, and the global war on terror, and explains the human cost of suspending civil liberties after a wartime emergency.

Autorentext
IRUM SHIEKH ****Visiting Scholar of Asian American Studies at UCLA, USA.

Inhalt
Azmath Mohammad: Transnational Implications of 9/11 Detentions * Ansar Mahmood: Lifelong Deportation: A Legal Resident's Punishment for Helping a Friend * Wael Kishk: Racialization of Muslims * Anser Mahmood and Family: Uprooting Immigrants, Uprooting Families * Nabil Ayesh: Loss of Civil Liberties for Muslims after 9/11 * Mohammad Elzaher: Propagating and maintaining the global war on terror * Yaser Ebrahim: Reclaiming civil rights