Unmaking citizens: passport removals, pre-emptive policing and the reimagining of colonial governmentalities. Issue 16 (10th December 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Kapoor, Nisha; Narkowicz, Kasia
• Is Part Of: Ethnic and racial studies. Volume 42:Issue 16(2019)
• Page Start: 45
• Page End: 62
• Publication Date: 2019-12-10
• Subjects: Citizenship -- passport removals -- war on terror -- racial exclusion -- Islamophobia -- coloniality; Race -- Periodicals; Race relations -- Periodicals; Ethnic groups -- Periodicals; 305.805
• DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2017.1411965
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0141-9870

Abstract

ABSTRACT: With the intensifying securitization of Western borders in the global War on Terror citizenship rights are increasingly fragile. Measures introduced by the British government to deal with the terrorist threat at home include citizenship deprivation, temporary exclusion orders as well as passport removals. Whilst citizenship deprivation has provoked critique for its potential violations of international human rights conventions on statelessness, cancellations of passports have not been subjected to the same kind of critique. Drawing on recent debates and interview data we demonstrate the alignment of citizenship deprivation and passport removals and conclude that these measures serve the same goal: of unmaking citizens. In this paper, we discuss findings from novel empirical research with individuals who have been removed of their British passports to illuminate the racialized dynamics of this process and the reconfiguration of racial governmentalities.