Indefinite detention camps for non-citizens have deep antecedents in modern nation-state practice

Evidence

Modern nations have long preserved spaces for non-citizens that might be characterized as the antecedents to the camp, spaces of indefinite detention where, as Bauman describes for today’s refugees, ‘time is suspended; it is time but not history.’ — Sherene Razack, Casting Out, 406

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth chasing: what specific historical ‘antecedents to the camp’ does Razack have in mind before the concentration camp proper?
• XREF: Directly connects to Bauman’s discussion of refugees and to Agamben’s state-of-exception framing of the camp. — connects to: Indefinite immigration detention strands migrants in a jail-like purgatory without a release date. — Luke de Noronha, The conviviality of the overpoliced,…, 52; Cross-national friendships in immigration detention can grow into collective political action against state power. — Luke de Noronha, The conviviality of the overpoliced,…, 53