“ILLEGALITY” AND DEPORTABILITY

Migrant "Illegality" and Deportability in Everyday Life by Nicolas P. De Genova can be found here.

This article  strives to meet two challenges. As a review, it provides a critical discussion of the scholarship concerning undocumented migration but  more precisely the theoretical status of migrant “illegality” and deportability. The article argues that it is insufficient to examine the “illegality” of undocumented migration only in terms of its consequences and that it is necessary also to produce historically informed accounts of the sociopolitical processes of “illegalization” themselves, which can be characterized as the legal production of migrant “illegality.”

Nicholas De Genova (Ph.D., Anthropology, University of Chicago, 1999) is presently a visiting scholar in the Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture at the University of Chicago. His website can be found here.



Legalizing Moves: Susan B. Coutin

 Susan Bibler Coutin holds a Ph.D. in sociocultural anthropology and is professor in the Department of Criminology, Law, and Society and the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine, where she also serves as Associate Dean of the Graduate Division. Her publications can be found here.