Practices of Illegalisation

This article contributes to theorising the often unrecognised continuities between the illegalisation of migrant and refugee mobilities as an effect of lawmaking or other state practices of border policing and immigration law enforcement and the illegalisation of the rights, claims, and juridical st...

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Published in:Antipode 2020-03, Vol.52 (2), p.352-364
Main Authors: De Genova, Nicholas, Roy, Ananya
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Citizens
Citizenship
Classification
Dominance
Global cities
illegality
Immigration
Immigration policy
Law enforcement
Marginality
minorities
Nationalism
Poverty
race
Scholarship
statelessness
Subordination
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Summary:This article contributes to theorising the often unrecognised continuities between the illegalisation of migrant and refugee mobilities as an effect of lawmaking or other state practices of border policing and immigration law enforcement and the illegalisation of the rights, claims, and juridical status of minoritised citizens. Against a backdrop of resurgent right‐wing nationalisms, we pursue this transversal analysis of state practices of illegalisation to draw attention not only to labour subordination and disposability but also the more fundamental relationship between law and terror. The making of such regimes of citizenship takes place in obvious ways at the ostensible outer edges of nation‐state territories. They are also replicated in the various spatial arrangements that ensure racialised dispossession within global cities, cities that are better understood as reconfigurations of settler‐colonial cities. We argue that the study of practices of illegalisation allows critical poverty scholarship to better discern how sociopolitical categories and classifications that are central to wider processes of marginalisation and domination may arise or be reinforced as effects of the state’s legal productions of illegality.
ISSN:0066-4812
1467-8330
DOI:10.1111/anti.12602