‘Wandering and settled tribes’: biopolitics, citizenship, and the racialized migrant

This paper argues that purportedly outdated racial categories continue to resonate in contemporary forms of racialization. I examine the use of metaphors of rootedness and shadows by a contemporary UK migrant advocacy organization and its allies to justify migrant regularization and manage illicit circulation. I argue that the distinction between rooted and rootless peoples draws on the colonial and racial distinctions between wandering and settled peoples. Contemporary notions of citizenship continue to draw upon and activate racial forms of differentiation. Citizenship is thus part of a form of racial governance that operates not only along biological but also social and cultural lines, infusing race into the structures, practices, and techniques of governance

Bare life in an immigration jail: technologies of surveillance in U.S. pre-deportation detention

This is an accepted manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies on 29/08/2020, available online: https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2020.1796266 The accepted version of the publication may differ from the final published version.Migration policies globally are characterised by a growth in the use of detention. These dynamics have also been noted in the United States of America, where, increasingly, the private immigration detention infrastructure is the most developed in the world. Like other total institutions, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facilities depend on controlling human bodies. This article, which explains how nation-state sovereignty is created by means of surveillance technologies, draws upon the narratives of 26 Mexicans, deported under the administrations of Presidents Bush and Obama and interviewed in four waves of research between 2012 and 2019 in their hometown. The article describes the lived experience of biopolitical interventions on detainees’ bodies and explains the disciplining role of restricting or limiting access to ICTs. The article uses Agamben’s notion of bare life. It describes how biopolitical interventions and disciplines dehumanise precarious migrants and contribute to their governmentality long after their deportation when they abstain from re-entering the United States. The article complicates the notion of bare life by demonstrating that the use of biometrics (fingerprints) not only dehumanises people but also identifies their bodies and thus rehumanise them.Published onlin

Imperial Encounters The Politics of Representation in North-South Relations

"Developed/underdeveloped," "first world/third world," "modern/traditional"-although there is nothing inevitable, natural, or arguably even useful about such divisions, they are widely accepted as legitimate ways to categorize regions and peoples of the world. In Imperial Encounters, Roxanne Lynn Doty looks at the way these kinds of labels influence North-South relations, reflecting a history of colonialism and shaping the way national identity is constructed today.Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- Representation and Global Politics -- Global Authority and Hegemony -- Representational Practices -- Cases -- Outline of Chapters -- Part I. Colonialisms -- Introduction to Part I -- 2. To Be or Not to Be a Colonial Power -- Background -- Self-Affirmation: Constructing American Manhood -- The Western Bond -- Reading the Philippines -- Duality of Discourse: Equivalence, Deferral, and Instability -- 3. Getting the "Natives" to Work -- Background -- Disciplinary Technology and the Production of African Identity -- I Work Therefore I Am": The Dangers of Idleness -- Authorizing Authority: The Double Bind of Oppositional Discourse -- Conclusion -- Part II. Insurgencies and Counterinsurgencies -- Introduction to Part II -- 4. Precocious Children, Adolescent Nations -- Background -- Global Purpose and World Governance -- Naturalizing International Identities: World Citizens, Precocious Children, and International Delinquents -- Classification and Subject Positioning -- Deferring Sovereignty -- Conclusion -- 5. Resistance in Colonial Kenya -- Background -- Reason in the Service of Empire -- Madness, Immaturity, and Modernization: Representing Mau Mau -- Disciplinary Technologies and the Deferral of Democracy -- Conclusion -- Part III. Contemporary Encounters -- Introduction to Part III -- 6. Foreign Aid, Democracy, and Human Rights -- Foreign Aid and Democracy: Constructing the "Other -- Foreign Aid and Human Rights: Constructing the "Self -- Conclusion -- 7. Repetition and Variation: Academic Discourses on North-South Relations -- The Sovereignty of Sovereignty: "Real" States, "Quasi" States, and the "Third World" in International Relations Theory -- Reinscriptions: Benevolent Imperialism -- Theorizing the Inequality of Nations -- Conclusion -- 8. Conclusion -- Notes -- BibliographyBooks, Journals, Magazines, Newspapers -- British Government Documents -- United States Government Documents -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W"Developed/underdeveloped," "first world/third world," "modern/traditional"-although there is nothing inevitable, natural, or arguably even useful about such divisions, they are widely accepted as legitimate ways to categorize regions and peoples of the world. In Imperial Encounters, Roxanne Lynn Doty looks at the way these kinds of labels influence North-South relations, reflecting a history of colonialism and shaping the way national identity is constructed today.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries