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Ernest Drucker, A Plague of Prisons: The Epidemiology of Mass Incarceration in America

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DOI10.1177/1462474513499891
AuthorKeramet A Reiter
Date01 October 2013
Published date01 October 2013
Subject MatterBook Reviews
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for rethinking the concept of sovereignty and turn to the notion of ‘human security’
as a counter-narrative to national security (p. 210). This new approach requires
decoupling the individual from the nation state. The authors draw here on argu-
ments posed by Catherine Dauvergne (2008), in Making People Illegal: What
Globalization Means for Migration and Law, where she advocates creation of
broader ethical community based on the rule of law, and ‘unhinged from the
nation itself’ (p. 214). For Weber and Pickering, membership in this community
would be unconditional and based solely on the humanity of immigrants (p. 212).
Even though this approach raises many questions, including to whom such sover-
eignty will be accounted, or how to guarantee protection of rights of immigrants on
the international level inhabited by the nation states, it challenges the hegemonic
discourses based on binary division between citizen and non-citizen and forces the
reader to ref‌lect on alternative ways of management of migration on a global level.
For this and other reasons mentioned above Globalization and Borders: Death at
the Global Frontier is a must-read for anyone interested in rethinking the problem
of policing migration beyond traditional approaches to migration, border controls
and sovereignty.
Reference
Dauvergne C (2008) Making People Illegal: What Globalization Means for Migration
and Law. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Magdalena Kmak
University of Helsinki, Finland
Ernest Drucker, A Plague of Prisons: The Epidemiology of Mass Incarceration in America, The
New Press: New York, 2011; 226 pp. (including index): 9781595584977, $26.95 (cloth),
$18.95 (pbk)
Political scientists, economists, historians, sociologists and criminologists alike
have tried to make sense of the now-familiar US experience of mass incarceration
and the tenfold increase in US imprisonment rates between 1970 and 2010.
Scholars have explained mass incarceration variously as a political tool of control,
an...

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