Migrants and Race in the US

<p>This book uses the concept of <em>territorial racism</em> to describe the discriminatory acts and exclusions that have been informed by native/alien distinctions. It argues that while the concept intersects with several different histories of racial and racist discourse it is a distinct ideological formation in its own right. It is broader in scope than these other types of racism and articulates race and territory in a way that is qualitatively different from the racial-territorial commonsense of the colonial era. Reflecting in policy trends racial discourse and macro-structural transformations this book operates across all of these levels-looking at global/local and micro/macro dynamics-to present a new theory of immigrant racialization. </p>