The shared condition of deportability forges affinity across racial and national lines in detention.
Evidence
Like racist policing practices in multi-ethnic neighbourhoods, British immigration removal centres actively throw diverse people together under shared conditions. When I have visited immigration removal centres, I have always been struck by the convivial dynamics and potentialities. People racialised and nationalised in very different ways all share a condition of incarceration, uncertainty and the impending threat of removal. This, unsurprisingly, creates forms of affinity, anchored by the shared ‘condition of deportability’ (De Genova, 2005). While people often ‘hang around’ with their co-nationals in detention, they also connect, care for and resist with people of many different nationalities. — Luke de Noronha, The conviviality of the overpoliced,…, 51
Categorization
- XREF: Connects to the book’s theme of conviviality across difference; parallels De Genova’s deportability literature. — connects to: The War on Terror created deportable subjects racialized as illegal and criminal — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims: Race and Labor in…, 647; Cross-national friendships in immigration detention can grow into collective political action against state power. — Luke de Noronha, The conviviality of the overpoliced,…, 53; Shared experiences of state violence can forge convivial bonds among differently racialised people. — Luke de Noronha, The conviviality of the overpoliced,…, 14 (+1 more)
- corroborated: 4 independent passages support this claim — Luke de Noronha, The conviviality of the overpoliced,…, 51
Related
- Cross-national friendships in immigration detention can grow into collective political action against state power. (similarity 0.81)
- Deportees’ multi-ethnic solidarity is an anti-racist resource of hope. (similarity 0.80)
- Conviviality gains political urgency precisely where multicultural daily life is most constrained. (similarity 0.79)
- Luke de Noronha — The conviviality of the overpoliced, detained and expelled (similarity 0.79)
- Analyzing conviviality requires theorising racialized urban exclusion alongside national border control. (similarity 0.79)
- Shared state violence can create fellow feeling across ethnic lines. (similarity 0.79)
- Deportees subjected to state racism can still refuse racial categories themselves. (similarity 0.79)
- Luke de Noronha — The conviviality of the overpoliced, detained and expelled Refusing race and salvaging the human at the borders of Britain (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- Shared experiences of state violence can forge convivial bonds among differently racialised people.
#corroborates(0.85) — Luke de Noronha, The conviviality of the overpoliced,…, 14 - Cross-national friendships in immigration detention can grow into collective political action against state power.
#expands(0.82) — Luke de Noronha, The conviviality of the overpoliced,…, 53 - The War on Terror created deportable subjects racialized as illegal and criminal
#expands(0.75) — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims, 647 - Analyzing conviviality requires theorising racialized urban exclusion alongside national border control.
#expands(0.75) — Luke de Noronha, The conviviality of the overpoliced,…, 12