The camp concept extends to whole Muslim immigrant communities under the exception

Evidence

Given the two arguments I advance, that race thinking undergirds the making of empire, and that the world is increasingly governed by the logic of the exception, each chapter is an example of a camp – that is, a place where law is suspended (the force of law without law) and Muslims are evicted from the national community. The camps I discuss range from literal prison camps, where terror suspects do not have the right to habeas corpus, to Muslim immigrant communities, for whom the rights and privileges of citizenship, such as the right to marry once the age of consent has been reached to the right to practise their faith as do others, do not apply. Ultimately, all Muslims become marked as outside political community when they are assumed to carry within them the possibility of threat to the nation. — Sherene Razack, Casting Out, 59

Categorization

• DEFINE: Extends the Schmitt/Benjamin/Agamben notion of the state of exception — ‘the force of law without law’ — from literal prisons to entire immigrant communities, giving ‘camp’ a broadened theoretical scope.
• XREF: Connects to Giorgio Agamben’s State of Exception and Hanna Arendt’s ‘right to have rights,’ and to the treatment of terror suspects evident in the Reluctant Fundamentalist’s Canada/transnational surveillance themes.