Frames the study of immigration within Foucauldian theories of governmentality.
Trade Review
"Inda's Exploration of the racialized ethical manner in which unauthorized immigration has been managed is a significant contribution to the literature of governmentality."
Anthropos
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements. Introduction: Government and Immigration.
Part I: Ethopolitics and the Management of In/security.
The Ethos of Responsibility.
Making Ethical Subjects.
The Government of the Marginal.
Racing the Unethical.
Part II: Producing “The Illegal,” or Making Up Subjects.
Government and Numbers.
Legislating Illegality.
Practices of Enumeration.
Surveying Routines.
Ethical Territories of Exclusion.
After 9/11.
Part III: Anti-Citizenship Technologies and the Regulation of the Border.
Governing Through Crime.
Interlude.
Assembling an Anti-Citizenship Technology.
Interlude.
Securitizing the Border.
Interlude.
The Aftermath of “Terror”.
Interlude.
Surfeit of Dead Bodies.
Interlude.
Dying in Abandonment.
Conclusion: Iterations.
Notes.
Index.
