ABSTRACT
This book describes a kind of racial otherness that is relegated to the margins of the national terrain and is typically defined by what it is not (not native-born, not “really” American, not white, not black). This is one reason why territorial racism cannot be wholly extricated from the black/white racial binary. Its exclusionary logic cannot be set in motion without latching parasitically onto the black/white binary and establishing a point of contrast with it. But in the process, territorial racism produces its own field of visibility that is described by the native/alien distinction. In this chapter, I explain how these distinctions interact with techniques of control that are used to regulate migrant flows. This can also be described as a condition of racialized expendability that converts migrants into removable people.
