ABSTRACT
The essays in this book are concerned with media and public debate in Asia following the events of September 11 in the United States. What I want to concentrate on in my contribution, however, is how, if I may oversimplify for the moment, ‘Asians’ within the ‘West’ related to the coverage of the September 11 events. By the term ‘Asian’, I refer to ‘minorities’ with Asian or ‘Muslim’ backgrounds, and I will focus particularly on those living in Britain, and on the British context and circumstances of response to September 11. My analysis of this is based on empirical research that I undertook after the September 11 events with Turkish migrants living in Britain.1 It takes as its main question how the critical events of September 11 were received and thought about within the context of multiple public debates that these people were connected with at the time.
