Title:	The Social, Political and Historical Contours of Deportation
Authors:	Bridget Anderson · Matthew J. Gibney Emanuela Paoletti
Keywords:	Political
Issue Date:	2013
Publisher:	Springer
Description:	This work broadens the study of deportation in two major ways. First, a number of the contributors here pay attention to deportation’s role as a membershipdefining act whose subjects are often citizens rather than non-citizens. Over and above reinforcing immigration controls or ridding the state of troublesome, expensive or unwanted foreigners, deportation works for governing elites to reinforce the value and significance of national citizenship. It does so primarily by highlighting one of the few rights that distinguishes citizens from non-citizens—the (unconditional) right to residence in the state—and reminding citizens of the existence of shared societal values. By publicly defining some people as unfit for citizenship and even for residence in the state, the shared norms of the political community are publicly affirmed. Yet if elites attempt to use deportation to draw clear boundaries between the citizens and the others, just who is a citizen—and who is fit for membership—is, as is evident in this work, changeable, sometimes difficult to identify, and contested by various social groups. A second way in which the contributors to this work expand the scope of the study of deportation is by looking at how the practice is negotiated and implemented in society at large. Some of the chapters that follow show how the recent turn to deportation across liberal states has impacted upon a diverse range of actors and institutions including the EU parliament, civil society, the courts, even the operators of call centres and those upon whom deportation has been successfully effected. The expanded account of who and what is touched by deportation offered in this work makes it evident that not only is deportation often debated and contested across different levels of society but the way non-citizens are treated often acts back upon the state’s dealings with citizens themselves, unsettling social relations.
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/52576
ISBN:	978-1-4614-5864-7
Appears in Collections:	Population Studies

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