ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that crimmigration is the product of mutual developments in the fields of criminal and immigration law, i.e., their transformation into an apparatus conceived by Foucault as ‘security’ and by Deleuze as ‘the society of control’. It goes on to characterize crimmigration as a system of governmentality, the primary target of which is the population, its principal form of knowledge being political economy and its essential mechanism being the apparatus of security. Hence, the chapter offers a comprehensive theoretical framework for understanding the rise of crimmigration in the age of globalization, as well as crimmigration’s vast contribution to civic stratification and to the domestication of immigration enforcement.
