Deporting Radicals, Deporting La Migra

The Hayat Case in Lodi

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4883045
AutoresSunaina Maira (University of California, Davis, autor de correspondencia)
Año2007
Volumen19
Número1
Páginas39-66
Fecha de publicación2007-03-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaCultural Dynamics (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0921-3740 • E-ISSN: 1461-7048
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0921374007077268
OpenAlexW1974194650
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas13
Referencias citadas12

This article will examine the nature of deportation as a logic that upholds state sovereignty and constructions of citizenship through technologies of exclusion, discipline, and `removal'. Regulations of immigrant populations by the state rely on notions of unwanted bodies that contaminate or threaten the national body politic and so must be cleansed from national territory. My research focuses on the impact of post-9/11 policies of surveillance, detention, and deportation of Muslim immigrants that were part of the US state's War on Terror and were bolstered by ideas of protecting `national security' from `internal' and `external' terrorist threats. The paranoia and nativism accompanying this siege mentality overlooks the ways in which deportation is, on the one hand, an economic policy of the neoliberal state that disciplines labor and depresses wages, and on the other, is also a political instrument for repressing movements that oppose US polices at home and abroad

Body politic · Citizenship · Deportation · Homeland security · Immigration · National security · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Psychological nativism · Sociology · Sovereignty · Terrorism · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Law · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Refugees, and Integration