TY  - BOOK
AU  - Shiekh,Irum
TI  - Detained without cause: Muslims' stories of detention and deportation in America after 9/11 
SN  - 0230103812 (hardback)
AV  - E184.M88 S55 2011
PY  - 2011///
CY  - New York
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - Civil rights
KW  - United States
KW  - Deportation
KW  - Detention of persons
KW  - Muslims
KW  - Interviews
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001
KW  - Influence
KW  - War on Terrorism, 2001-2009
KW  - Moral and ethical aspects
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Azmath Mohammad: transnational implications of 9/11 detentions -- Ansar Mahmood: lifelong deportation: the punishment for helping a friend -- Anser Mehmood, Uzma Naheed, and Family: uprooting immigrants, uprooting families -- Nabil Ayesh: loss of civil liberties for Muslims after 9/11: the national security system's guinea pig -- Mohammad E.: propagating and maintaining the global war on terror -- Yaser Ebrahim: Reclaiming our civil rights and liberties
N2  - "Richly told and uniquely heartrending, this book collects personal narratives of Muslim immigrants from Pakistan, Egypt, India, and Palestine who were racially profiled, detained indefinitely, and mistreated following the September 11 attacks. From descriptions of physical abuse at the hands of American prison employees to a harrowing account of extraordinary rendition and torture in Egypt, these powerful stories will inspire both empathy and outrage. Exploring themes of globalization and ethnic tension in the context of the global war on terror, Irum Shiekh here provides a space for former detainees to tell their stories and reveal the human cost of suspending civil liberties after a wartime emergency"--
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