Nicholas De Genova

“The Deportation Regime is an important and timely book, both for theory and for politics. A series of well-written case studies (from across the world) accompanied by a smart Theoretical Overview by Nicholas De Genova, the collection urges us to see the undocumented migrant/sans papiers/deportable alien/stateless citizen as paradigmatic of our time, as norm rather than exception, and thus as constitutive of sovereignty and the political today.”

         -- Charles Piot, author of

             Remotely Global: Village Modernity in West Africa

“This valuable collection of essays treating deportation as a distinct form of state social control shows convincingly that deportation demands more specific attention from social theorists. The ethnographically rich and theoretically informed essays provide fascinating case studies on the functioning of the deportation regime in different national settings.”

         -- Linda Bosniak, author of

            The Citizen and the Alien: Dilemmas of Contemporary                          Membership

[The Deportation Regime] marks an important development in the study of deportation, as well as making a significant contribution to the literatures on migration, citizenship, and sovereignty....  This collection is truly impressive. It demonstrates the importance of deportation as a mechanism for producing citizenship and alienage, nations, states, and territories in both theory and practice....  There is much to be done, and this book outlines an emerging research agenda. 

       -- Bridget Anderson, author of

       Doing the Dirty Work? The Global Politics of Domestic Labour                 and

        Us and Them?: The Dangerous Politics of Immigration Control

"[This volume] seeks to help us understand why 'the deportation regime' has become the dominant lens through which undocumented migration is seen....  De Genova's chapter is a masterful overview of what he defines as the 'deportation regime', and ... provides an incisive account of the intersections between debates about sovereignty, space, and freedom of movement....  

The Deportation Regime ... is a must read book."

        -- John Solomos, co-editor of

            the journal Ethnic and Racial Studies 

“[I]t is astonishing how little attention is paid by political scientists to the ways that states limit, regulate and restrict the freedom of movement of millions of people … through attempts to control borders through policies of detention and incarceration….  Thanks to Nicholas De Genova, Nathalie Peutz, and Duke University Press, social scientists now have, in The Deportation Regime, an urgently needed compendium providing copious information and analysis of deportation regimes in Europe, the Americas, North Africa, and the Middle East.…  the editors did a fabulous job of selecting fourteen extremely well-written and illuminating essays that nicely complement each other.”

        -- Jacqueline Stevens, author of

           States Without Nations: Citizenship for Mortals

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Winner

2011  Bronze Award, Past Presidents' Book Awards,  Association for Borderlands Studies