Camps emerge wherever the rule of law is suspended for a class of people.

Evidence

Gregory calls attention to what may be described as a hallmark of our age: the confinement of large numbers of people to camps, people who can be reduced to bare life on the basis of religion, race, and ethnic origin. Agamben suggests that a camp is created every time a structure gives rise to a place where the rule of law does not operate. Bodies become camps when they are cast into a state of indeterminacy that is simultaneously inside and outside the law. For such bodies, judicial protection no longer applies, as the law itself determines that they are to be deprived of fundamental rights. — Sherene Razack, Casting Out, 397

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the Agamben-derived notion that ‘bodies become camps’ and that camps arise whenever the law is suspended for a group.