Fearing the Immigrant Racialization and Urban Policy in Toronto

Free Download Parastou Saberi, "Fearing the Immigrant: Racialization and Urban Policy in Toronto"
English | ISBN: 151790983X | 2022 | 304 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 3 MB
A fascinating deep dive into one city’s urban policy-and the anxiety over immigrants that informs it

The city of Toronto is often held up as a leader in diversity and inclusion. In Fearing the Immigrant, however, Parastou Saberi argues that Toronto’s urban policies are influenced by a territorialized and racialized security agenda-one that parallels the "War on Terror." Focusing on the figure of the immigrant and so-called immigrant neighborhoods as the targets of urban policy, Saberi offers an innovative, multidisciplinary approach to the politics of racialization and the governing of alterity through space in contemporary cities.
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