The Double-Writing of Statecraft: Exploring State Responses to Illegal Immigration

I am...concerned here with the limitations that conventional approaches encounter in seeking to understand state responses to immigration. I also want to examine the more interesting openings that have been created despite these limitations but that have not been pursued. Pursuing these openings I suggest an alternative understanding that places tension and contradiction at the very core of statecraft....This article...is not an attempt to explain illegal immigration in a causal sense but focuses on state responses to illegal immigration and how these responses can inform our understanding of statecraft. (EXCERPT)