Welcome to the Umma
The British State and its Muslim Citizens Since 9/11
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8912139 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Toby Archer (European Programme of the Finnish Institute of International Affairs, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 44 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 329-347 |
| Publication date | 2009-08-20 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cooperation and Conflict (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0010-8367 • E-ISSN: 1460-3691 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0010836709106219 |
| OpenAlex | W1984559389 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 10 |
British Muslims are citizens of the United Kingdom and also part of a worldwide community, the Umma, the Muslim community of the faithful. British Muslims have both national and transnational allegiances and on the part of the British state this has necessitated new ways of governing its Muslim citizens. Concerns over both terrorist violence and societal security questions regarding Muslims in the UK are both internal and external to the state. The government has had difficulties in finding transnational policy responses that go beyond the old division of internal and external security. After the terrorist attacks of 9/11, security was the main reason why the British state sought to engage Muslims, but this has been transformed into the wider agenda of ‘community cohesion’. In tracing the Muslim groups that the government has engaged with since 2001, I show how the issue of governing Muslims has gone beyond concerns just about terrorism and violence to a wider agenda that accepts British Muslims as citizens, yet at the same time still reflects the fears of Muslim ‘otherness’. I consider how this otherness is seen as a threat to societal security, and how the government’s attempt to create policies to deal with such threats is best understood as the ‘politics of unease’
Community cohesion · Government (linguistics · Internal security · Islam · Muslim community · National security · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · State (computer science · Terrorism · Global Security and Public Health · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Public Administration · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence
Who Elected Oxfam?
The political influence of an interest group
Islamophobia and Media Framing in West Media
Acculturation preferences and perceived (dis)loyalty of Muslims in the U.K
The British state ‘security syndrome’ and Muslim diversity
Countering far-right threat through Britishness
Conceptualising the waves of Islamist radicalisation in the UK
Implementing ‘Prevent’ in countering violent extremism in the UK
Governing through Prevent? Regulation and Contested Practice in State-Muslim Engagement
Introduction
Articulations of race and genealogies of encounter among former Yugoslav migrants in Britain
Security
The Securitization of Migration in Western Societies
Identity, migration and the new security agenda in Europe
The Far Enemy
Politics of Exception and Unease
The Three Faces of Securitization
Towards a Theory of Securitization
Security and Immigration
British Muslims, multiculturalism and UK foreign policy
| Citations per year | 1.1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2016 - 2023 (8) |
| Highly cited | No |