Deepening Divides

Didier Fassin is the James D. Wolfensohn Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. He is the author of numerous books including The Will to Punish (2018), Life: A Critical Users Manual (2018), Prison Worlds: An Ethnography of the Carceral Condition (2016) and Enforcing Order: An Ethnography of Urban Policing.

• 1. Introduction: Connecting Borders and Boundaries - Didier FassinPART I: POLITICAL AND MORAL ECONOMIES2. What Money Can Buy: Citizenship by Investment on a Global Scale - Kristin Surak3. Monitoring International Labor Precarity: The State Management of Migrant Domestic Workers - Rhacel Parreñas4. When Migrants Claim Blood Kinship: Constructing Hierarchies of Human Worth - Ays¸e Parla5. Family Resemblances: Binational Marriage, Muslim “Communalism,” and the Patriarchal State - Mayanthi FernandoPART II: LEGAL DISBARRING6. An Earlier Ban: Chinese Exclusion and Plenary Power - Mae Ngai7. Manners of Exclusion: From the Asiatic Barred Zone to the Muslim Ban - Sherally Munshi8. Brave New Worlds: The Racial Regimes of the Americas - Michael Hanchard9. The Outlawed: Landscapes of Human Rights - Tugba BasaranPART III: CREATING SPACES10. Protection: Sanctuary and the Contested Ethics of Presence in the United States - Linda Bosniak11. Ruination and Rebuilding: The Precarious Place of a Border Town in Gaza - Ilana Feldman12. Symmetry and Affinity: Comparing Borders and Border-Making Processes in Africa - Paul NugentNotes on Contributors Index

'This volume is the first to bring together two distinct phenomena usually studied in separate strands of research: how migration regimes police the territorial boundaries of states, and how differentiating between and discriminating against minority groups creates social boundaries within states. An important and timely intellectual move'