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

by William Wendell Walters and Nicholas De Genova

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822345765
• ISBN13: 9780822345763
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 522 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 9.3"