Acknowledgments vii
Introduction / Nathalie Peutz and Nicholas De Genova 1
Part One. Theoretical Overview
The Deportation Regime: Sovereignty, Space, and the Freedom of Movement /
Nicholas De Genova 33
Part Two. Sovereignty and Space
1. Deportation, Expulsion, and the International Police of Aliens / William
Waltes 69
2. Immigration Detention and the Territoriality of Universal Rights /
Galina Cornelisse 101
3. Mapping the European Space of Circulation / Serhat Karakayali and Enrica
Rigo 123
Part Three. Spaces of Deportability
4. From Exception to Excess: Detention and Deportations across the
Mediterranean Space / Rutvica Andrijasevic 147
5. Deportation in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands: Anticipation, Experience,
and Memory / Victor Talavera, Guillermina Gina Núñez, and Josiah Heyman 166
6. Engulfed: Indian Guest Workers, Bahraini Citizens, and the Structural
Violence of the Kafala System / Andrew M. Gardner 196
7. Deportation at the Limits of "Tolerance": The Juridical, Institutional,
and Social Construction of "Illegality" in Switzerland / Hans-Rudolf Wicker
224
8. Deportation Deferred: "Illegality," Visibility, and Recognition in
Contemporary Germany / Heide Castañeda 245
9. Citizens, "Real" Others, and "Other" Others: The Biopolitics of
Otherness and the Deportation of Unauthorized Migrant Workers from Tel
Aviv, Israel / Sarah S. Willen 262
10. Radical Deportation: Alien Tales from Lodi and San Francisco / Sunaina
Maira 295
Part Four. Forced Movement
11. Fictions of Law: The Trial of Sulaiman Oladokun, or Reading Kafka in an
Immigration Court / Aashti Bhartia 329
12. Exiled by Law: Deportation and the Inviability of Life / Susan Bibler
Coutin 351
13. "Criminal Alien" Deportees in Somaliland: An Ethnography of Removal /
Nathalie Peutz 371
Part Five. Freedom
14. Abject Cosmopolitanism: The Politics of Protection in the
Anti-Deportation Movement / Peter Nyers 413
References 443
Contributors 483
Index 497
