... topographies of risk, I contend that the dual demands of their positioning as intimate and alien require that they engage in “affective automation,” or the repetitive execution of physical and emotional tasks despite their own limits. This continual demand for labor impacts their exposure to injury within...

... The deportation of U.S. citizens as aliens is amenable to several possible explanations. Racism and errors of law enforcement unconstrained by due process provide the atmospheric background for these events but are not independent causes. Chapter 12 uses deconstruction for close readings of laws...