Description
Modern eugenics has its roots in the orientalist gaze of the public intellectual, encompassing both author and academics. In this paper I examine the role of the public intellectual as a securitizing actor in constructions of the ‘other’. This can be evidenced not only through literature, but also in the way that science has ‘othered’ immigrant women’s bodies through scientific experiments. Focusing on the experimentation on Asian women in 1960’s Coventry this chapter interrogates the link between eugenics and othering to argue that these experiments were used to emphasise the differences of immigrant women’s bodies to support their securitisation and illegalisation. This in turn exposes the use of science and the role of the scientist in advancing the imperialist agenda.
