Categorizing people as beyond humanity is the elementary operation of sovereign power.

Evidence

The expulsion of someone who used to have rights as a citizen, or simply to categorize some individuals in a society as a form of life that is beyond the reach of dignity and full humanity and thus not even a subject of a benevolent power, is the most elementary operation of sovereign power – be it as a government in a nation-state, a local authority, a community, a warlord, or a local militia. — Sherene Razack, Casting Out, 35

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: A dense formulation: sovereignty founds itself most basically not on who it protects but on who it deems unworthy of protection — the bare exclusion precedes any governance.