Targeting Immigrants: Government, Technology, and Ethics

Introduction: Government and Immigration.

Part I: Ethopolitics and the Management of In/security.

The Ethos of Responsibility.

Making Ethical Subjects.

The Government of the Marginal.

Racing the Unethical.

Part II: Producing “The Illegal,” or Making Up Subjects.

Government and Numbers.

Legislating Illegality.

Practices of Enumeration.

Surveying Routines.

Ethical Territories of Exclusion.

After 9/11.

Part III: Anti-Citizenship Technologies and the Regulation of the Border.

Governing Through Crime.

Interlude.

Assembling an Anti-Citizenship Technology.

Interlude.

Securitizing the Border.

Interlude.

The Aftermath of “Terror”.

Interlude.

Surfeit of Dead Bodies.

Interlude.

Dying in Abandonment.

Conclusion: Iterations.

Notes.

Index.