Immigrant: Innocent or Intruder

Be Panic-Stricken with 'Subversion':

The immigrants become threatening in the eyes of many countries, in this case, from the articles tended to focus on the American traditional ways and values as the land of liberty; while, is confronting the threats of violent and new particular type of aggression as called 'terrorism.' According to Gary Gerstle in his article, described many interesting and convincing story lines about the immigration flows and its later impacts in the American society for the tendency of 'subversive' behavior. The generics of subversion can be categorized into four main categories which are the religious, political, economic, and racial typology.  

 " 'Race' is a political category that can accommodate various meanings which are in turn determined by struggle... racial differentiation has become a feature of institutional structures-legal subjectivity of citizenship-as well as individual action" (Paul Gilroy's statement in Aihwa Ong's Cultural Citizenship as Subject-Making, page 739).    

Racial differentiation is one main factor in my opinion that eradicates and affects the ways of one's feeling and his or her standpoint in the ground of society. Human born with different tied bloods and have own traditional ways of living in which our locality always crash whenever we move into new places whereby the authentic cultural performance of that area remains existing. From article of Ong, explained about "Cultural Citizenship" that is a dual process of self-making and being-made within webs of power linked to the nation-state and civil society (Ong:1996,p.738). It seems obviously that the subversive indicator lead to tightly engulf the process of subjectification in mono-lime. The process of 'Whiten' has created the repulsive divisions in many societies globally since nineteen century. How to define whose status and duty is generally based on the phenotype of group that people along with especially from their ancestor backgrounds. In case of American society, as we have Anglo-Saxon as the superior one while the Oriental, Asian and African American become the inferior races in the country. For religious subversion for American society, for sure, is according from the migrations of Catholic Irish confronting the Protestant conservatism and native elites. The papal system apprehended the American, and new Act was exposed to deal with the expansion of this new locating group in many aspects of life. For political one during the WWI, German and Austrian people faded away and moved to America; nevertheless, the strong spirit of hardworking and crashing over class led the new wave of consideration in cooperating with massive movements of labors in many states of America, including their protests and strike offs. Also subversion has emerged in various aspect both in peaceful environment, and, especially in high tension phase like wartime.                

"The historical record instructs us that war or near-war situations often put immigrants at risk, especially if those immigrants have come from a part of the world or belong to a race or religion perceived to be the enemy of the United States" (Gary Gerstle's The Immigrant as Threat to American Society, page 105).    

However, it is still obscured to definitely classify or even draw a line in society of what who is intruder or supporter whose loyalty is worthy enough for 'New World'. The Japanese American is an one example described the inevitable division and exclusive dominance from the American society. Because the political during WWII and racial subversion had accumulated simultaneously as increasing awareness for Native Americans concerned. From above one hypothesis is the concern uprising more and more in the wartime and near-war tension that need particular sense of solidarity and homogeneity, in which it needs to clarify by reemerging any groups of people while thoroughly excludes the risky groups having less or more tied with the religious, racial, and political sense with one who is now enemy of the U.S. The stories from the past further exhibit similar situations emerged in this current era. That 'War on Terror' can directly and indirectly regenerate many subversive locus that envisages the risk tendency to security and activate the hyper mode of government to exercise own overreaching powers over the people, no matters who and how, his or her, called themselves or were called after regrouping and putting GPS on their bodies as 'CITIZEN' in that state or travels inside the territory.