Targeted Transnationals

Targeted Transnationals
Author: Jenna Hennebry
Publisher: UBC Press
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2013
Genre: History
ISBN: 0774824409

Following 9/11, the securitization of state practices and policies has chipped away at the citizenship and personal rights of all Canadians, particularly those of Arab descent. This book argues that in a securitized global context and through racialized immigration and security policies, Arab Canadians have become "targeted transnationals." Media representations have further legitimized their homogenization and racialization. The contributors to this book examine state practices towards, and media representations of, Arab Canadians. They also present voices that counter the dominant discourse and trace forms of community resistance to the racialization of Arab Canadians.

Targeted Transnationals

Targeted Transnationals
Author: Jenna Hennebry
Publisher: UBC Press
Total Pages: 285
Release: 2013-04-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0774824425

Following 9/11, the securitization of state practices and policies has chipped away at the citizenship and personal rights of all Canadians, particularly those of Arab descent. This book argues that, in a securitized global context and through racialized immigration and security policies, Arab Canadians have become “targeted transnationals.” Media representations have further legitimized their homogenization and racialization. The contributors to this book examine state practices towards, and media representations of, Arab Canadians. They also present voices that counter the dominant discourse and trace forms of community resistance to the racialization of Arab Canadians.

Enemies Known and Unknown

Enemies Known and Unknown
Author: Jack McDonald (Ph.D.)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 330
Release: 2017
Genre: History
ISBN: 0190683074

McDonald's book lays bare the legal and political consequences of Washington's pursuit of militarised counterterrorism in the post-9/11 era

Enemies Known and Unknown

Enemies Known and Unknown
Author: Jack McDonald
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 330
Release: 2017-05-15
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0190862726

President Obama was elected on an anti-war platform, yet targeted killings have increased under his command of the 'War on Terror'. The US thinks of itself as upholding the rule of international law and spreading democracy, yet such targeted killings have been widely decried as extra-judicial violations of human rights. This book examines these paradoxes, arguing that they are partially explained by the application of existing legal standards to transnational wars. Critics argue that the kind of war the US claims to be waging - transnational armed conflict - doesn't actually exist. McDonald analyses the concept of transnational war and the legal interpretations that underpin it, and argues that the Obama administration's adherence to the rule of law produces a status quo of violence that is in some ways more disturbing than the excesses of the Bush administration. America's interpretations of sovereignty and international law shape and constitute war itself, with lethal consequences for the named and anonymous persons that it unilaterally defines as participants. McDonald's analysis helps us understand the social and legal construction of legitimate violence in warfare, and the relationship between legal opinions formed in US government departments and acts of violence half a world away.

Transnational Repression in the Age of Globalisation

Transnational Repression in the Age of Globalisation
Author: Saipira Furstenberg
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2024-04-30
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1399506080

Bringing together leading scholars, this volume is the first of its kind to address the growing global phenomenon of transnational repression in a comparative perspective. Authoritarian regimes in places like China, Russia and Saudi Arabia are infamous for cracking down on domestic opposition movements and democracy activists at home. And, in our age of globalisation, migration and technological development, dictators are increasingly able to extend their authoritarian power over their critics abroad. Using tactics that include surveillance, coercion, harassment and physical violence, transnational repression threatens the lives of democracy defenders, the basic rights of diaspora members and the rule of law in host states.

Transnational Mergers and Acquisitions in the United States

Transnational Mergers and Acquisitions in the United States
Author: Sarkis J. Khoury
Publisher: Beard Books
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2002
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781587981500

This is a reprint of a 1980 book that deals with foreign companies acquiring American businesses in the 1970s and how they evaluated and negotiated those acquisitions.

Understanding the Transnational Lives and Literacies of Immigrant Children

Understanding the Transnational Lives and Literacies of Immigrant Children
Author: Jungmin Kwon
Publisher: Teachers College Press
Total Pages: 161
Release: 2022
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0807780855

This book provides targeted suggestions that educators can use to ensure successful teaching and learning with today’s growing population of transnational, multilingual students. The text offers insights based on the author’s observations, interactions, and interviews with second-generation immigrant children, their families, and their teachers in the United States and South Korea. These collected stories give educators a better understanding of how elementary school children engage in language, literacy, and learning in and across spaces and countries; the forms of unique linguistic and cultural knowledge immigrant children build, expand, and mobilize as they move across contexts; the ways in which immigrant children position themselves and represent their identities; and how educators and researchers can honor these children’s identities and unique talents. Featuring children’s narratives, drawings, writings, maps, and photographs, this resource is must-reading for educators and researchers seeking to create more inclusive learning spaces and literacy practices. Book Features: Examples of students’ literacy practices with insights for more effective teaching.Practical lessons gleaned from children engaging with language and literacy in flexible and dynamic ways in their everyday lives.Targeted suggestions to help educators better understand and utilize children’s unique linguistic abilities and cultural understandings. Discussion questions and examples that challenge deficit perspectives of immigrant children and reposition them as multilingual and transnational experts. Implications for educators and researchers seeking ways to amplify young immigrant children’s voices and leverage their knowledge.

Kingpins and Corruption

Kingpins and Corruption
Author: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research. Working Group on Transnational Organized Crime in the Americas
Publisher:
Total Pages: 60
Release: 2017
Genre: Organized crime
ISBN:

Transnational organized crime resides at the heart of nearly every major threat confronting the Americas today, whether it is the deadly opioid crisis hurting US communities, the catastrophic collapse of oil-rich Venezuela, or debilitating gang violence throughout Central America, which spills over into the streets of American cities. These crises can be traced to criminal networks that garner billions from the production of illicit drugs, human traffcking, and extortion. This report focuses on the threat posed by trans-national organized crime in the Americas, elucidating a series of effective policy prescriptions for Congress and the Trump administration. The report's seven sections present an overview of tools available to the government and spotlight transnational organized crime threats that demand more attention and action from US authorities.

Undiplomatic History

Undiplomatic History
Author: Asa McKercher
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Total Pages: 381
Release: 2019-04-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 0773558209

When the field of Canadian history underwent major shifts in the 1990s, international history became marginalized and the focus turned away from foreign affairs. Over the past decade, however, the study of Canada and the world has been revitalized. Undiplomatic History charts these changes, bringing together leading and emerging historians of Canadian international and transnational relations to take stock of recent developments and to outline the course of future research. Following global trends in the wider historiography, contributors explore new lenses of historical analysis – such as race, gender, political economy, identity, religion, and the environment – and emphasize the relevance of non-state actors, including scientists, athletes, students, and activists. The essays in this volume challenge old ways of thinking and showcase how an exciting new generation of historians are asking novel questions about Canadians' interactions with people and places beyond the country's borders. From human rights to the environment, and from medical internationalism to transnational feminism, Undiplomatic History maps out a path toward a vibrant and inclusive understanding of what constitutes Canadian foreign policy in an age of global connectivity.

Beyond Accommodation

Beyond Accommodation
Author: Jennifer Selby
Publisher: UBC Press
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2018-09-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0774838310

Problems – of integration, failed political participation, and requests for various kinds of accommodation – seem to dominate the research on minority Muslims in Western nations. Beyond Accommodation offers a different perspective, showing how Muslim Canadians successfully navigate and negotiate their religiosity in the more mundane moments of their lives. Drawing on interviews with Muslims in Montreal and St. John’s, Selby, Barras, and Beaman examine moments in which religiosity is worked out. They critique the model of reasonable accommodation, which has been lauded internationally for acknowledging and accommodating religious and cultural differences. The authors suggest that it disempowers religious minorities by implicitly privileging Christianity and by placing the onus on minorities to make requests for accommodation. The interviewees show that informal negotiation occurs all the time; scholars, however, have not been paying attention. This book advances a new model for studying the navigation and negotiation of religion in the public sphere and presents an alternative picture of how religious difference is woven into the fabric of Canadian society.