Nicholas De Genova

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Nicholas De Genova

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#1140

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#1508

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#558

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Social Anthropology

#54

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#68

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PhD Anthropology University of Chicago
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Bachelors Anthropology University of Chicago

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According to Wikipedia, Nicholas De Genova is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Comparative Cultural Studies at the University of Houston. His research centers primarily on migration, borders, citizenship, and race.

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Nicholas De Genova's Published Works

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Migrant “Illegality” and Deportability in Everyday Life (2002) (2141)
Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America (2005) (1027)
The Deportation regime: sovereignty, space, and the freedom of movement (2010) (510)
Spectacles of migrant ‘illegality’: the scene of exclusion, the obscene of inclusion (2013) (452)
The Legal Production of Mexican/Migrant “Illegality” (2004) (411)
Working the Boundaries: Race, Space, and “Illegality” in Mexican Chicago (2005) (193)
The Borders of "Europe": Autonomy of Migration, Tactics of Bordering (2017) (184)
“The Production of Culprits: From Deportability to Detainability in the Aftermath of ‘Homeland Security’” (2007) (179)
The Queer Politics of Migration: Reflections on “Illegality” and Incorrigibility (2010) (141)
The “migrant crisis” as racial crisis: do Black Lives Matter in Europe? (2018) (126)
Latino Crossings: Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, and the Politics of Race and Citizenship (2003) (94)
Europe / Crisis : New Keywords of “ the Crisis ” in and of “ Europe ” (2016) (93)
Autonomy of Asylum?The Autonomy of Migration Undoing the Refugee Crisis Script (2018) (79)
The European Question Migration, Race, and Postcoloniality in Europe (2016) (68)
Conflicts of Mobility and the Mobility of Conflict: Rightlessness, Presence, Subjectivity, Freedom (2009) (68)
Introduction. The Borders of “Europe” and the European Question (2016) (62)
‘We are of the connections’: migration, methodological nationalism, and ‘militant research’ (2013) (60)
Race, Space, and the Reinvention of Latin America in Mexican Chicago (1998) (57)
The “Crisis” of the European Border Regime: Towards a Marxist Theory of Borders (2016) (54)
Detention, Deportation, and Waiting: Toward a Theory of Migrant Detainability (2019) (48)
Latino Racial Formations in the United States (2010) (48)
Governing Immigration Through Crime (2013) (47)
The European QuestionMigration, Race, and Postcoloniality in Europe (2016) (47)
Migration and Race in Europe: The Trans-Atlantic Metastases of a Post-Colonial Cancer (2010) (42)
BORDER STRUGGLES IN THE MIGRANT METROPOLIS (2015) (40)
Latino Racial Formations in the United States: An Introduction (2003) (40)
“Gangster Rap and Nihilism in Black America: Some Questions of Life and Death” (1995) (38)
The Borders of “Europe”: (2016) (36)
Racial transformations : Latinos and Asians remaking the United States (2006) (34)
Practices of Illegalisation (2020) (34)
The Stakes of an Anthropology of the United States (2007) (34)
Extremities and Regularities: Regulatory Regimes and the Spectacle of Immigration Enforcement (2015) (29)
Border, Scene and Obscene (2012) (27)
Racializing Affect: A Theoretical Proposition (2015) (26)
“American" Abjection: "Chicanos," Gangs, and Mexican/Migrant Transnationality in Chicago (2008) (22)
Introduction: Desire for the political in the aftermath of the Cold War (2018) (22)
Antiterrorism, Race, and the New Frontier: American Exceptionalism, Imperial Multiculturalism, and the Global Security State (2010) (22)
“Alien Powers: Deportable Labour and the Spectacle of Security” (2011) (20)
‘ From Exception to Excess : Detention and Deportations across the Mediterranean Space ’ , ( eds ) (2011) (19)
Latino Rehearsals: Racialization and the Politics of Citizenship between Mexicans and Puerto Ricans in Chicago (2003) (19)
Within and Beyond Citizenship (2016) (18)
The Everyday Civil War: Migrant Working Men, Within and Against Capital (2006) (18)
The Incorrigible Subject: Mobilizing a Critical Geography of (Latin) America through the Autonomy of Migration (2017) (17)
The free movement of people around the world would be Utopian: IUAES World Congress 2013: Evolving Humanity, Emerging Worlds, 5–10 August 2013 (2016) (17)
Minor keywords of political theory: Migration as a critical standpoint (2021) (16)
The ‘native’s point of view’ in the anthropology of migration (2016) (14)
Deportation as a way of life (2013) (13)
Rebordering “the People”Notes on Theorizing Populism (2018) (13)
Introduction: Latino and Asian Racial Formations at the Frontiers of U.S. Nationalism (2020) (13)
Bare Life, Labor-Power, Mobility, and Global Space: Toward a Marxian Anthropology? (2012) (12)
The Securitization of Roma Mobilities and the Re-bordering of Europe (2019) (11)
Constructing Illegality in America: Immigration “Reform” and the Production of Migrant “Illegality” (2013) (11)
Culture of Empire: American Writers, Mexico, and Mexican Immigrants, 1880–1930 (2004) (10)
Citizenship’s Shadow:: Obscene Inclusion, Abject Belonging, or, the Regularities of Migrant ‘Irregularity (2017) (9)
Check Your Head@@@Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America. (1995) (9)
In the Land of the Setting Sun Reflections on "Islamization" and "Patriotic Europeanism" (2015) (9)
Afterword. Deportation: The Last Word? (2018) (8)
Migration and the Mobility of Labor (2019) (7)
Ethnography in Europe, or an anthropology of Europe? (2014) (7)
The Economy of Detainability: Theorizing Migrant Detention (2016) (6)
The deportation power (2018) (6)
The “Crisis” of the European Border Regime (2016) (6)
The Perplexities of Mobility (2013) (6)
Inclusion Through Exclusion: Explosion or Implosion? (2008) (6)
“Spectacle of Security, Spectacle of Terror” (2011) (6)
Denizens All: The Otherness of Citizenship (2015) (5)
The “War on Terror” as Racial Crisis (2012) (5)
Toward a Marxian anthropology? Bare, abstract, mobile, global (2016) (5)
Within and Against the Imperial University: Reflections on ‘Crossing the Line’ (2014) (4)
The ‘European’ Question (2016) (4)
Immigration Detention and the Territoriality of Human Rights (2010) (3)
(The Crisis of) "European Values" (2016) (3)
A Companion to Latino Studies (2007) (3)
The Whiteness of Innocence:: Charlie Hebdo and the Metaphysics of Antiterrorism in Europe (2016) (3)
11. The “War On Terror” As Racial Crisis: Homeland Security, Obama, And Racial (Trans)Formations (2019) (3)
The Everyday Civil War: Migrant Labor, Capital, and Latino Studies (2007) (3)
The Securitarian Society of the Spectacle (2013) (2)
The Everyday Civil War (2007) (2)
"White" Puerto Rican migrants, the Mexican colony, "Americanization," and Latino history (2010) (2)
Within and Against the Imperial University (2014) (2)
The Incorrigible Subject: The Autonomy of Migration and the US Immigration Stalemate (2016) (2)
New Destinations: Mexican Immigration in the United States. Edited by Víctor Zuñiga and Rubén Hernández‐León. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2005. Pp. xxix+288. (2007) (2)
Foucault, migrations and borders (2013) (2)
The management of “quality”: class decomposition and racial formation in a Chicago factory (2010) (1)
The Incorrigible Subject (2016) (1)
The Incorrigible Subject of the Border Spectacle (2016) (1)
Racial Formation in the Twenty-First Century (2019) (1)
Targeting immigrants: government, technology, and ethics – By Jonathan Xavier Inda (2007) (1)
Migration: Editorial Introduction (2020) (1)
In the Land of the Setting Sun (2015) (1)
Mediterranean Struggles for Movement and the European Government of Bodies (2016) (1)
The Incorrigible Subject:: The Political Economy of the Autonomy of Migration in (Latin) America (2016) (0)
Locating a Mexican Chicago in the Space Of the U.S. Nation-State (2005) (0)
The “Native’s Point Of View”: Immigration and the Immigrant as Objects Of U.S. Nationalism (2005) (0)
“Look, an Illegal Alien!”: the rhetorics of migrant “Illegality” and the racialization of Mexicanness (2023) (0)
Reply to Mishler, Harney, and Roediger (2010) (0)
Notes on Contributors (2004) (0)
Rhetorics of Insecurity (2013) (0)
The Politics Of Production (2005) (0)
Desire for the political in the aft ermath of the Cold War (2018) (0)
11. Economies of Dignity (2019) (0)
Photo Essay The Junkyard of Futures Past (1997) (0)
Reply to Mishler, Harney, and Roediger Production, class, race … and labor as subject (2010) (0)
14 Denizenship (2021) (0)
Latino urban ethnography and the work of Elena Padilla (2010) (0)
The Imperial University: Academic Repression and Scholarly Dissent (2014) (0)
Latinos and Citizenship (2006) (0)
Citizenship and Its Others (2015) (0)
The Anthropology of Citizenship (2013) (0)
Securitizations of Citizenship (2009) (0)
“Immigration ‘Reform’ and the Production of ‘Illegality’” (2013) (0)
Split-Level Bedlam-Chicago at the End of the Twentieth Century (1996) (0)

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