Publication
Suspect community or suspect category? The impact of counter-terrorism as ‘policed multiculturalism’
How to think about the impact of counter-terrorism and counter-radicalisation on ethnic and religious accommodation?
- Author
- Francesco Ragazzi
- Date
- 25 January 2016
- Links
- Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
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The main hypothesis is that rather than promoting ‘assimilation’, as the government would expect, or alienation, as the advocates of the ‘suspect community’ hypothesis would contend, counter-terrorist policies produce and reinforce a government of society in discrete and divided ethno-religious groups. Such ‘policed multiculturalism’—understood as the recognition and the management of diversity through a security perspective—has an important consequence in that it removes fundamental questions about pluralism from political debate, casting them instead in a depoliticised language of security.