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Citizenship, deportation and the boundaries of belonging
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The authors examine the implications of deportation for how citizenship is understood and conceptualised in liberal states. But they draw on the UK to show that, as a particularly definitive and symbolically resonant way of dividing citizens from (putative) strangers, deportation is liable to generate conflicts amongst citizens and between citizens and the state over the question of who is part of the normative community of members.Abstract:
Taking the growing use of deportation by many states, including the UK and the USA, as its point of departure, this article examines the implications of deportation for how citizenship is understood and conceptualised in liberal states. We follow scholars such as Walters (2002, Citizenship studies, 6 (2), 265–292) and Nicholas De Genova (2010, The deportation regime: sovereignty, space and freedom of movement. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 33–65) in seeing deportation as a practice that is ‘constitutive of citizenship’, one that reaffirms the formal and normative boundaries of membership in an international system of nominally independent states. However, we draw on the UK to show that, as a particularly definitive and symbolically resonant way of dividing citizens from (putative) strangers, deportation is liable to generate conflicts amongst citizens and between citizens and the state over the question of who is part of the normative community of members. Such conflict is, we show, a key and everyda...read more
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Banishing Usury: The Expulsion of Foreign Moneylenders in Medieval Europe, 1200-1450
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the emergence and spread of the idea of expelling foreign usurers across the intellectual and legal landscape of late medieval Europe and examine how the expulsion expressed itself in practice, how its targets came to be defined, and how the resulting expulsion orders were enforced or not.
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Building the Big Society
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Imagined Immigration: The Impact of Different Meanings of ‘Immigrants’ in Public Opinion and Policy Debates in Britain:
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Challenge to the Nation-State: Immigration in Western Europe and the United States
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Border Control and the Limits of the Sovereign State
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Migrant “Illegality” and Deportability in Everyday Life
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors consider the study of undocumented migration as an epistemological, methodological, and political problem, in order to then formulate it as a theoretical problem, and argue that it is necessary also to produce historically informed accounts of the sociopolitical processes of "illegalization" themselves, which can be characterized as the legal production.
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Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America
TL;DR: In this paper, illegal aliens: A Problem of Law and History is defined as "a problem of law and history" where the goal is to "make and unmake of illegal aliens".
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Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America
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Migration, immigration controls and the fashioning of precarious workers:
TL;DR: In particular, the construction of institutionalised uncertainty, together with less formalised migratory processes, help produce "precarious workers" over whom employers and labour users have particular mechanisms of control as discussed by the authors.
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The Deportation regime: sovereignty, space, and the freedom of movement
TL;DR: Peutz and De Genova as discussed by the authors discuss the role of space, sovereignty, and freedom of movement in the enforcement of the deportation regime in the European Space of Circulation, and present a mapping of the European space of circulation.