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A mobile home unit is transported into the new prison facility under construction near the current Saharonim Prison in the Negev Desert, near Kadesh Barnea, October 10, 2012. Israel is building a new facility that could hold thousands of additional asylum seekers. (photo: Oren Ziv/ Activestills.org)
The immigrant as homo sacer, and the courts’ intolerable contempt for liberty
How Israeli courts succeed in employing legal norms in a manner that excludes immigrants from the most basic principles of freedom and justice. Immigrants of all kinds have become, to use Giorgio Agamben’s terminology, the paradigmatic homo sacer of our day – they are in the area of indistinction between the external and the internal…
By Laissez Passer December 6, 2012
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