Targeted Transnational — The State, the Media and Arab Canadians

Canada often officially celebrates the success of its multiculturalism policy, yet when it comes to Arab Canadians, racialized immigration and security policies have turned one group into "targeted transnationals" in the context of the so-called "global war on terror," according to Momani (political science, U. of Waterloo, Canada) and Hennebry (communication studies, Wilfrid Laurier U., Canada), who in this collection present 10 papers examining state policies and societal discourses that have targeted Arab immigrant groups for discriminatory treatment. Specific topics include the racialization of Arabs in Canada's immigration and citizenship policies, media representations of Arabs and Muslims as a political process, "Orientalizing" and "Othering" in the government and corporate media discourses about the Toronto 18 (who were accused of plotting attacks for al-Qaeda in 2006), contesting Arab and Muslim representations in private television and radio in Canada, and the marginalization of the Canadian Arab Federation by the Canadian Government. Distributed in the US by the U. of Washington Press and in Canada by the U. of Toronto Press. Annotation c2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Jenna Hennebry is an associate professor incommunication studies at Wilfrid Laurier University and the BalsillieSchool of International Affairs and associate director of theInternational Migration Research Centre. Bessma Momani is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at theUniversity of Waterloo and the Balsillie School of InternationalAffairs.