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The Social, Political and Historical Contours of Deportation (Immigrants and Minorities, Politics and Policy) by Bridget Anderson, Matthew J. Gibney (auth.), Bridget Anderson, Matthew J. Gibney, Emanuela Paoletti (eds.) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Social, Political and Historical Contours of Deportation (Immigrants and Minorities, Politics and Policy) about?
In recent years states across the world have boosted their legal and institutional capacity to deport noncitizens residing on their territory, including failed asylum seekers, “illegal” migrants, and convicted criminals. Scholars have analyzed this development primarily through the lens of immigration control. Deportation has been viewed as one amongst a range of measures designed to control entrance, distinguished primarily by the fact that it is exercised inside the territory of the state. But deportation also has broader social and political effects. It provides a powerful way through which the state reminds noncitizens that their presence in the polity is contingent upon acceptable behavior. Furthermore, in liberal democratic states immunity from deportation is one of the key privileges that citizens enjoy that distinguishes them from permanent residents. This book examines the historical, institutional and social dimensions of the relationship between deportation and citizenship in liberal democracies. Contributions also include analysis of the formal and informal functions of administrative immigration detention, and the role of the European Parliament in the area of irregula
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- Author
- Bridget Anderson, Matthew J. Gibney (auth.), Bridget Anderson, Matthew J. Gibney, Emanuela Paoletti (eds.)
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
- Published
- 2013
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781461458647
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Political Science, Science, Law