ABSTRACT
This chapter highlights the racial complexity of systemic exploitation and oppression. The Homeland has become a refreshed racial imaginary for the United States. The impact of the Homeland can be further illustrated through a marked antagonism towards accepting immigrants and refugees. The chapter suggests a slightly different take on state violence, namely that which takes place in the form of legal procedures, or what might be called legal technologies. Within liberal political thought, legal procedures are considered important political safeguards of individual rights. The privileging of commitments to challenge racism over commitments to challenge xenophobia is justified in terms of national security and the need to protect the Homeland. As Gregory White points out, the concept of security as popularized in the aftermath of the declaration of the War on Terror was taken up similarly as a notion framing the concerns of the European Union with regard to climate-induced migration.
