About the Author

Parastou Saberi is a visiting research fellow at the University of Warwick Department of Politics and International Studies. She is coeditor of Destroy, Build, Secure: Readings on Pacification, and her work has been published in Political Geography and Race & Class, among other journals.

Reviews

"Fearing the Immigrant is a searing analysis of the colonial management of contemporary global suburban spaces. This dazzling work eschews disciplinary and geopolitical borders to offer a cutting critique of the securitization of the city as domestic warfare and leaves us with bold new ways to think race, struggle, and the future of urban life."-Deborah Cowen, author of The Deadly Life of Logistics: Mapping Violence in Global Trade"Innovative and detailed, Fearing the Immigrant opens up Toronto’s urban policy, both conceptually and geographically. Connecting urban policy to debates around space, state, racialization, and geopolitics, Parastou Saberi makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the governing of alterity through space in contemporary cities."-Mustafa DikeÇ, author of Urban Rage: The Revolt of the Excluded