Deport, Deprive, Extradite: Twenty-First Century State Extremism

When Minh Pham was extradited from Britain to the US to face terrorism related charges, his appeal against the deprivation of his British citizenship was still pending. Soon after he arrived his appeal was lost and he was effectively made stateless. Pham's story is one of the many in Deport, Deprive, Extradite, illustrating the perpetual enhancement of state power and its capabilities to expel.

In looking at these stories of Muslim men accused of terrorism-related offences, Nisha Kapoor exposes how these racialised subjects are dehumanized, made non-human, both in terms of how they are represented and via the disciplinary techniques used to expel them. She explores how the establishment of these non-humans enables the expansion of inhumanity more broadly, targeting Muslims, people of colour, immigrants and refugees. In asking what such cases illuminate and legitimate about precariousness and dispossession, she offers a radical analysis of the contemporary security state.

About the author

Nisha Kapoor is a Lecturer in Sociology at the University of York, and a Visiting Fellow at the Center for Race, Ethnicityand Gender in the Social Sciences at Duke University (REGSS). She is the co-editor of The State of Race (2013, Palgrave).

Report

A monumental study of how the 'War on Terror' has allowed states to operate outside the boundaries of reason and decency. This is courageous research, a book that should be read by all citizens of 21st century states that claim to be fighting extremism but have themselves become extremist states. Vijay Prashad, Executive Director, Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, and author, The Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the Global South

Product details

• Authors: Nisha Kapoor, Kapoor Nisha
• Publisher: Verso
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.03.2018
• EAN: 9781786633477
• ISBN: 978-1-78663-347-7
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civics & Citizenship, Migration, immigration & emigration, Civil rights & citizenship, Political oppression and persecution, Refugees & Political Asylum, Criminal law: terrorism law, Police and security services