The social, political and historical contours of deportation /

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Imprint:New York : Springer, c2013
Description:1 online resource (vi, 161 p.)
Language:English
Series:Immigrants and minorities, politics and policy
Immigrants and minorities, politics and policy.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9848795
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Other authors / contributors:Anderson, Bridget (Sociologist)
Gibney, Matthew J.
Paoletti, Emanuela, 1980-
ISBN:1461458641 (electronic bk.)
9781461458647 (electronic bk.)
9781461458630
1461458633
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Summary: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.
Other form:Print version: 9781461458630 1461458633