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Statelessness and Contemporary Enslavement (Hardcover)
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Statelessness and Contemporary Enslavement (Hardcover)
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Why have statelessness and contemporary enslavement become endemic
since the 1990s? What is it about global political economic
policies, protracted warfare, and migration rules and patterns that
have so systemically increased these extreme forms of
vulnerability? Why have intellectual communities largely ignored or
fundamentally rejected the concepts of statelessness and
contemporary enslavement? This book argues that statelessness and
enslavement are not aberrations or radical exceptions. They have
been and are endemic to Euromodern state systems. While victims are
discrete outcomes of similar processes of the racialized debasement
of citizenship, stateless people share the predicament of those
most likely to be enslaved and the enslaved, even when formally
free, often face situations of statelessness. Gordon identifies
forcible inclusion of semi-sovereign nations, extralegal expulsion
of people who cannot be repatriated, and the concentrated erosion
of the rights of full-fledged citizens as the primary modes through
which people experience degrees of statelessness. She argues for
the political value of seeing the connections among these discrete
forms. With enslavement, she insists that while the centuries-long
practice has taken on some new guises necessary to its
profitability in the current global economy, what and who it
involves have remained remarkably consistent. Rather than focusing
on slavery as a radical and exceptional extreme of abuse or
coercion, Gordon contends that we can understand contemporary
slavery's specificity most usefully through considering its
defining dimensions together with those of wage laborers and guest
workers. Gordon concludes that appreciation of the situation of the
stateless and of the enslaved should fundamentally orient our
thinking about viable contemporary conceptions of consent and of
the kinds of twenty-first-century political institutions that would
make it harder for some to make the vulnerability of others so
lucrative.
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