ABSTRACT
This chapter reviews Zygmunt Bauman's key concepts on classification and morality. This step is important because Bauman's concerns with rationalization and bureaucratization are usually foregrounded in the context of criminal justice and border control, and, although these factors are significant. Classification schemes are critical to understanding the negative effects of the population registries on Rattssakert och effektivt verkstallighetsarbete (REVA), the deportation campaign. The chapter reviews and analyses some key dimensions of the population classification in Sweden which creates divisions between native Swedes and others, particularly foreigners. It discusses how REVA has depended upon those same divisions to further reproduce social distancing and, as a consequence, has contributed to the social production of immorality. The chapter argues that ethnic classification schemes in Sweden, specifically the way in which population registries count foreignness, have grafted social distance onto the structure of society, creating false binaries between native Swedes and foreigners.
