Event is free but registration is required: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/deport-deprive-extradite-state-extremism-and-expulsion-tickets-31829307315
In the spiralling forms of state-led violence that mark the
current moment we are witnessing the intensification of powers to expel people
in various ways. We see this through the expansion and routinisation of
deportation programmes, through the investments in modes of incarceration and
through the retraction and deprivation of citizenships. The legitimation and
enhancement of such forms of state violence pivot around the construction of
unruly and threatening subjects; racialized bodies that in the context of the
War on Terror are fronted through politicized representations of Muslims,
blacks, refugees and immigrants as terrorist suspects.
It is arguably in these most extreme cases - of those
identified and surveilled as terrorist suspects and foreign criminals - that we
see most clearly how state powers are being enhanced. In this workshop we aim
to explore and unpack the stories of those who are criminalised and dehumanised
through the War on Terror, reflect on the implications of this, consider the
processes and techniques that the state is using to expel undesired subjects
and what they indicate about the nature of the security state in the current
moment
