Securitized Citizens - 9781442631977

Securitized CitizensCanadian Muslims' Experiences of Race Relations and Identity Formation Post-9/11\nAuthor(s): Baljit Nagra\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Toronto Press, Canada\nImprint: University of Toronto Press\nISBN-13: 9781442631977, 978-1442631977\nSynopsis\nUninformed and reactionary responses in the years following the events of 9/11 and the ongoing War on Terror have greatly affected ideas of citizenship and national belonging. \n\n In Securitized Citizens, Baljit Nagra, develops a new critical analysis of the ideas dominant groups and institutions try to impose on young Canadian Muslims and how in turn they contest and reconceptualize these ideas. Nagra conducted fifty in-depth interviews with young Muslim adults in Vancouver and Toronto and her analysis reveals how this group experienced national belonging and exclusion in light of the Muslim other, how they reconsidered their cultural and religious identity, and what their experiences tell us about contemp.