States tacitly allow undocumented labor to avoid protecting migrants

Evidence

In the end, state technologies of violence reify sovereign power through multiple registers of formal and informal violence that function to eliminate and purge bodies deemed illicit from the territorial boundaries of the nation. This has serious consequences for patterns of migration and labor diaspora within the global economy. Through multiple registers of sovereign power, racism and violence have become a means to make unwanted labor disappear. — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims, 874 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Undocumented presence in the United States is a civil, not criminal, offense — Andrew L. Whitehead, American Idolatry, 640; The state benefits from illegality by manipulating migrant labor through it; States sometimes tolerate undocumented labor to meet employer demands without protection costs — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3812 (+7 more)

Broader Connections

• State violence against illicit bodies makes unwanted migrant labor disappear #complicates (0.74) — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims, 874