Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook of Race and Surveillance
- The Cambridge Handbook of Race and Surveillance
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- 1 The Golden Age of Racial Surveillance
- 2 Sorting Identity
- 3 Imperial Mimesis
- 4 The Racialisation of British Women during the Long Nineteenth Century
- 5 Linking Caste and Surveillance
- 6 Surveillance in South Africa
- 7 Israel/Palestine, North America, and Surveillance
- 8 Colonialism’s Uneasy Legacy
- 9 China’s Surveillance and Repression in Xinjiang
- 10 Asian Americans as “the Perpetual Foreigner” under Scrutiny
- 11 The Great White Father and His Little Red Children
- 12 In a Most Excellent and Perfect Order
- 13 Surveillance and Public Schools
- 14 Surveillance and Preventing Violent Extremism
- 15 Resistance and the Politics of Surveillance and Control
- 16 Surveilled Subjects and Technologically Mediated Law Enforcement
9 - China’s Surveillance and Repression in Xinjiang
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 February 2023
- The Cambridge Handbook of Race and Surveillance
- The Cambridge Handbook of Race and Surveillance
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- 1 The Golden Age of Racial Surveillance
- 2 Sorting Identity
- 3 Imperial Mimesis
- 4 The Racialisation of British Women during the Long Nineteenth Century
- 5 Linking Caste and Surveillance
- 6 Surveillance in South Africa
- 7 Israel/Palestine, North America, and Surveillance
- 8 Colonialism’s Uneasy Legacy
- 9 China’s Surveillance and Repression in Xinjiang
- 10 Asian Americans as “the Perpetual Foreigner” under Scrutiny
- 11 The Great White Father and His Little Red Children
- 12 In a Most Excellent and Perfect Order
- 13 Surveillance and Public Schools
- 14 Surveillance and Preventing Violent Extremism
- 15 Resistance and the Politics of Surveillance and Control
- 16 Surveilled Subjects and Technologically Mediated Law Enforcement
Summary
The Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region has received global attention since 2017 due to China’s massive crackdown on Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities in the region. Since 2017–2018, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)’s crackdown on Uyghur and other Muslim minorities in Xinjiang has become unprecedented in its scope and intensity. Reports on the CCP’s highly repressive strategies in that region led to a formal expression of concern by the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination in August 20181 and several legislative hearings in the United States.2 In 2020, the United States imposed sanctions on three officials, including Chen Quanguo, who are in charge of the Xinjiang’s recent development and a major economic and paramilitary organization, the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (known as bingtuan), accusing it of “facilitating widespread abuses against Uighur Muslims.”3
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- The Cambridge Handbook of Race and Surveillance , pp. 166 - 189Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023