Deport deprive extradite
Subtitle: 21st century state extremism
By: Nisha Kapoor
Publisher: Verso
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 227
ISBN-13: 9781786633477
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Deportation; Government policy; Detention of persons; Terrorists; Extradition; Emigration and immigration; Cases; Legal status, laws; Political crimes and offenses
Other titles: Deport, deprive, extradite
Description: "The extradition of terror subjects reveals who is considered to be human--and who is not When Minh Pham was extradited from Britain to the US to face terrorism related charges, his appeal against the deprivation of his British citizenship was still pending. Soon after he arrived, his appeal was lost and he was effectively made stateless. Pham's story is one of the many in Deport, Deprive, Extradite that illustrates the perpetual enhancement of state power and its capabilities to expel. In looking at these stories of Muslim men accused of terrorism-related offenses, Nisha Kapoor exposes how these racialised subjects are dehumanized, made non-human, both in terms of how they are represented and via the disciplinary techniques used to expel them. She explores how the establishment of these non-humans enables the expansion of inhumanity more broadly, targeting Muslims, people of colour, immigrants and refugees. In asking what such cases illuminate and legitimate about precariousness and dispossession, she offers a radical analysis of the contemporary security state"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-216) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : creating conditions; title: Making non-humans; title: Blind justice and blinding crime; title: Deforming and depriving citizenship; title: Courting human rights; title: On recognitions, rights and resistance; title: Conclusion : this be the answer.