Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; The crimmigrant other; Punishment and global society: crimmigration control and bordered penality; The divided continent: penal power in contemporary Europe; From old to new poor laws; Methods and structure of the book; Notes; 1. (De)constructing the crimmigrant other; The crimmigrant body; Illegality; Deportability; The spectacle; Knowledge; Conclusion; Notes; 2. Bordered penality and crimmigration control

Bordered penality: the power to punish and the power to banishNotes; 3. "Hard-on-the-outside, soft-on-the-inside": An inclusive society with an exclusionary edge; Building a deportation machine: "a snowball which keeps on rolling"; Focusing on the "usual suspects"; Penal power between East and West; Beyond exceptionalism; Conclusion; Notes; 4. Policing Europe's humanitarian borderlands; Building a belt of protection: penal power in the postcolony; Global hierarchies of citizenship: from deviant states to deviant citizens; The rise of Frontex; Fighting illegality: the evil smuggler

Homines sacri and the power to let dieWorking in humanitarian borderlands: novel assemblages of care and control; The moral discomfort at the border; Conclusion: towards a moral economy of border control; Notes; 5. Justice and the moral boundaries of the nation; The power to make distinctions; From normal to abnormal justice; The morality of nationalism; The difficult child; Conclusion: carrying the burden of history; Notes; Conclusion: The power of a metanarrative; Note; References; Index