Stigmatized groups are perceived as nomadic threats even when settled in their homelands.

Evidence

Stigmatized groups, Balibar observes, are qualitatively ‘deterritorialized,’ as Gilles Deleuze would say, in an intensive rather than extensive sense: they ‘live’ on the edge of the city, under permanent threat of elimination; but also, conversely, they live and are perceived as ‘nomads,’ even when they are fixed in their homelands, that is, their mere existence, their quality, their movements, their virtual claims of rights and citizenship are perceived as a threat for ‘civilization.’ — Sherene Razack, Casting Out, 199

Categorization

• DEFINE: Explains Balibar’s sense of ‘deterritorialization’ as intensive rather than spatial — a perceived nomadism even while fixed in place.