ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the use of expulsion in the securitisation process. It examines the securitisation process in Sudan in 2009 when a set of International Non-Governmental Organisations (INGOs) were expelled from the country. The chapter presents solely with the fact of expulsion - why states would take this action and how INGOs react to being forced to leave. The Sudan case reinforces the idea that corporate expulsions can be used as discourse when the primary audience was not the agencies themselves but rather the Western political community in general. The connection between the external, the internal and the external in the internal differs between place and over time. But some generalisations can be drawn from the Sudan case in how expulsions can be seen as a form of discourse in the securitisation process. The securitising agent was clearly the government, the executive, which mobilised the bureaucratic apparatus to implement the expulsion orders.
