O poder da deportação
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[1] University of Houston
University of Houston
Estados Unidos
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- Localización: Revista Interdisciplinar da Mobilidade Humana: REMHU, ISSN-e 2237-9843, Vol. 28, Nº. 59, 2020 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Pessoas migrantes e refugiadas LGBTI)
- Idioma: portugués
- Títulos paralelos:
- The Deportation Power
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Resumen
If today we have come to customarily understand the susceptibility to deportation as a principal and defining distinction that separates citizenship and non-citizenship on a global scale, its genealogy as an actual mechanism of power reveals that, with respect to migration, it was first introduced with rather more specific and circumscribed targets. In the United States, for instance, and in other contexts across the Americas, that original target was Chinese labor, and the motive for deportation was overtly racist exclusion. Understanding this genealogy is revealing insofar as it destabilizes the naturalization of deportation as a presumptive remedy for nation-states to expel "undesirable" non-citizens, and unsettles the naturalized partition between citizenship and non-citizenship that is often affiliated with the susceptibility to deportation. This means that deportation allows us to better comprehend how "minority" citizens can be stripped of their citizenship and rendered stateless, just as it allows us to see...
