Targeting immigrants
Subtitle: government, technology, and ethics
By: Jonathan Xavier Inda.
Publisher: Blackwell Pub.
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9781405112420; 9781405112437
Subjects: Immigrants -- Government policy -- United States; Emigration and immigration -- Government policy -- Moral and ethical aspects; United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Government policy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Government and immigration; title: The ethos of responsibility; title: Making ethical subjects; title: The government of the marginal; title: Racing the unethical; title: Government and numbers; title: Legislating illegality; title: Practices of enumeration; title: Surveying routines; title: Ethical territories of exclusion; title: After 9/11; title: Governing through crime; title: Assembling an anti-citizenship technology; title: Securitizing the border; title: The aftermath of terror; title: Surfeit of dead bodies; title: Dying in abandonment.