The Deportation Regime: Sovereignty, Space, and the Freedom of Movement

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This important collection examines deportation as an increasingly global mechanism of state control. Anthropologists, historians, legal scholars, and sociologists consider not only the physical expulsion of noncitizens but also the social discipline and labor subordination resulting from deportability, the threat of forced removal. They explore practices and experiences of deportation in regional and national settings from the U.S.-Mexico border to Israel, and from Somalia to Switzerland. They also address broader questions, including the ontological significance of freedom of movement; the historical antecedents of deportation, such as banishment and exile; and the development, entrenchment, and consequences of organizing sovereign power and framing individual rights by territory. Whether investigating the power that individual and corporate sponsors have over the fate of foreign laborers in Bahrain, the implications of Germany's temporary suspension of deportation orders for pregnant and ill migrants, or the significance of the detention camp, the contributors reveal how deportation reflects and reproduces notions about public health, racial purity, and class privilege. They also provide insight into how deportation and deportability are experienced by individuals, including Arabs, South Asians, and Muslims in the United States. One contributor looks at asylum claims in light of an unusual anti-deportation campaign mounted by Algerian refugees in Montreal; others analyze the European Union as an entity specifically dedicated to governing mobility inside and across its official borders. The Deportation Regime addresses urgent issues related to human rights, international migration, and the extensive security measures implemented by nation-states since September 11, 2001. Contents Acknowledgments Introduction • Nathalie Peutz and Nicholas De Genova Part One: Theoretical Overview The Deportation Regime: Sovereignty, Space, and the Freedom of Movement • Nicholas De Genova Part Two: Sovereignty and Space 1. Deportation, Expulsion, and the International Police of Aliens • William Walters 2. Immigration Detention and the Territoriality of Universal Rights • Galina Cornelisse 3. Mapping the European Space of Circulation • Serhat Karakayali and Enrica Rigo Part Three: Spaces of Deportability 4. From Exception to Excess: Detention and Deportations across the Mediterranean Space • Rutvica Andrijasevic 5. Deportation in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands: Anticipation, Experience, and Memory • Victor Talavera, Guillermina Gina Núñez-Mchiri, and Josiah Heyman 6. Engulfed: Indian Guest Workers, Bahraini Citizens, and the Structural Violence of the Kafala System • Andrew M. Gardner 7. Deportation at the Limits of “Tolerance”: The Juridical, Institutional, and Social Construction of “Illegality” in Switzerland • Hans-Rudolf Wicker 8. Deportation Deferred: “Illegality,” Visibility, and Recognition in Contemporary Germany • Heide Castañeda 9. Citizens, “Real” Others, and “Other” Others: The Biopolitics of Otherness and the Deportation of Unauthorized Migrant Workers from Tel Aviv, Israel • Sarah S. Willen 10. Radical Deportation: Alien Tales from Lodi and San Francisco • Sunaina Maira Part Four: Forced Movement 11. Fictions of Law: The Trial of Sulaiman Oladokun, or Reading Kafka in an Immigration Court • Aashti Bhartia 12. Exiled by Law: Deportation and the Inviability of Life • Susan Bibler Coutin 13. “Criminal Alien” Deportees in Somaliland: An Ethnography of Removal • Nathalie Peutz Part Five: Freedom 14. Abject Cosmopolitanism: The Politics of Protection in the Anti-Deportation Movement • Peter Nyers References Contributors Index