ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on perceptions of risk after the World Trade Centre (WTC) attacks of 11 September 2001 of students between 16 and 18 years of age, most of them South Asian, in the British city of Bradford. For those students with hybrid locations in diasporic communities, attachment to people and places in different parts of the world has meant that the effects of these events have been felt strongly in both a direct and mediated way. Fears over racist attacks and rising discrimination are one concern identified as a consequence of the terrorist attacks of 11 September by the students. Instead of focusing on terrorism as the main reason for war in Afghanistan and Iraq, most interviewees constructed a political-economic argument. The terrorist threats to western populations and values have dominated much political and media discourse in North America and Europe since 11 September 2001.
