The Surveillance of Sikh Bodies in the War on Terror
Seminar as part of the Long History of Ethnicity and Nationhood Reconsidered
21 February 17:00
Stanford House, 65 High Street, Oxford, OX1 4EL The Garden Room
As processes of racialization continue to accelerate in the war on terror, Islamophobia has increasingly come to condition the lives of diasporic Sikh populations. Based upon a series of interviews with Sikh respondents, this talk will examine their historical and contemporary positioning in Western nation states. In doing so, it will demonstrate the complex ways in which Sikhs have been regulated through a winder racial politics of inclusion and exclusion.
