The War on Terror created deportable subjects racialized as illegal and criminal

Evidence

The War on Terror, which follows precedents in immigration history and the making of modern America (Ngai 2004), exacerbated migrant control, regulation, and discipline to create deportable subjects racialized through notions of illegality and criminality. — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims, 647

Categorization

• DEFINE: Introduces the concept of ‘deportable subjects’ — a useful term for the state’s construction of a racialized class through immigration control.
• XREF: connects to: The shared condition of deportability forges affinity across racial and national lines in detention. — Luke de Noronha, The conviviality of the overpoliced,…, 51; Deportation transformed from administrative tool into weapon against radicals — John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of…, 1312; Immigration restrictions climaxed a wartime cascade of anti-foreign statutes — John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of…, 1806 (+3 more)