Profiled asylum seekers face a catch-22 where both truth and lies condemn them

Evidence

In effect, through the operation of a zone of law that contains no law, those who fit the profile are damned if they lie, and damned if they don’t. — Sherene Razack, Casting Out, 128

Categorization

• XREF: The damned-if-you-do/damned-if-you-don’t structure parallels Agamben’s homo sacer double exclusion and the earlier chapter theme of racialized bodies always already suspect.