Deport, Deprive, Extradite: 21st Century State Extremism

Nisha Kapoor joined Warwick in December 2018 as Assistant Professor in Sociology having previously worked in the Sociology Department at the University of York. Prior to that she held appointments at Duke University, US where she was 2012-13 Samuel DuBois Cook Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for the study of Race, Ethnicity and Gender in the Social Sciences (REGSS) and at Manchester Metropolitan University. She completed her PhD in Sociology at the University of Manchester, UK in 2010.

Her research interests are broadly concerned with racism and the security state covering topics relating to immigration, citizenship, criminalization, Islamophobia, segregation and authoritarianism. Theoretically, she draws on critical race, postcolonial, political and cultural theory to assist in the undertaking of this work.

Her most recent research, some of which is published in her book Deport Deprive Extradite. 21st Century State Extremism (Verso, 2018), comes out of an ESRC Future Research Leaders Award (2015-2018). The three-year project examined race, citizenship and the state in the context of the War on Terror. Documenting stories and cases of individuals subject to extradition, citizenship deprivation and passport removals, incarceration and deportation, the research asks what such techniques and technologies illuminate about the broader features and operations of the security state. The project uses a range of methods (interviews, documentary and media analysis, quantitative analysis of data obtained via FOI requests) analysing legal judgments, policy documents and statistical data to explore the intensification of securitization and its authoritarian dimensions. She is currently developing this work, to explore further the gender-raced dimensions of islamophobia and its function for securitization.