6. Engulfed: Indian Guest Workers, Bahraini Citizens, and the Structural Violence of the Kafala System

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Part One. Theoretical Overview
6. The Deportation Regime: Sovereignty, Space, and the Freedom of Movement 33
7. Part Two. Sovereignty and Space
8. 1. Deportation, Expulsion, and the International Police of Aliens 69
9. 2. Immigration Detention and the Territoriality of Universal Rights 101
10. 3. Mapping the European Space of Circulation 123
11. Part Three. Spaces of Deportability
12. 4. From Exception to Excess: Detention and Deportations across the Mediterranean Space 147
13. 5. Deportation in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands: Anticipation, Experience, and Memory 166
14. 6. Engulfed: Indian Guest Workers, Bahraini Citizens, and the Structural Violence of the Kafala System 196
15. 7. Deportation at the Limits of “Tolerance”: The Juridical, Institutional, and Social Construction of “Illegality” in Switzerland 224
16. 8. Deportation Deferred: “Illegality,” Visibility, and Recognition in Contemporary Germany 245
17. 9. Citizens, “Real” Others, and “Other” Others: The Biopolitics of Otherness and the Deportation of Unauthorized Migrant Workers from Tel Aviv, Israel 262
18. 10. Radical Deportation: Alien Tales from Lodi and San Francisco 295
19. Part Four. Forced Movement
20. 11. Fictions of Law: The Trial of Sulaiman Oladokun, or Reading Kafka in an Immigration Court 329
21. 12. Exiled by Law: Deportation and the Inviability of Life 351
22. 13. “Criminal Alien” Deportees in Somaliland: An Ethnography of Removal 371
23. Part Five. Freedom
24. 14. Abject Cosmopolitanism: The Politics of Protection in the Anti-Deportation Movement 413
25. References 443
26. Contributors 483
27. Index 487