In "Missing," Sunaina Marr Maira explores how young South Asian
Muslim immigrants living in the United States experienced and
understood national belonging (or exclusion) at a particular moment
in the history of U.S. imperialism: in the years immediately
following September 11, 2001. Drawing on ethnographic research in a
New England high school, Maira investigates the cultural dimensions
of citizenship for South Asian Muslim students and their
relationship to the state in the everyday contexts of education,
labor, leisure, dissent, betrayal, and loss. The narratives of the
mostly working-class youth she focuses on demonstrate how cultural
citizenship is produced in school, at home, at work, and in popular
culture. Maira examines how young South Asian Muslims made sense of
the political and historical forces shaping their lives and
developed their own forms of political critique and modes of
dissent, which she links both to their experiences following
September 11, 2001, and to a longer history of regimes of
surveillance and repression in the United States.
Bringing grounded ethnographic analysis to the critique of U.S.
empire, Maira teases out the ways that imperial power affects the
everyday lives of young immigrants in the United States. She
illuminates the paradoxes of national belonging, exclusion,
alienation, and political expression facing a generation of Muslim
youth coming of age at this particular moment. She also sheds new
light on larger questions about civil rights, globalization, and
U.S. foreign policy. Maira demonstrates that a particular
subjectivity, the "imperial feeling" of the present historical
moment, is linked not just to issues of war and terrorism but also
to migration and work, popular culture and global media, family and
belonging.
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