Extirpate and Expel: On the Penal Management of Postcolonial Migrants in the European Union

This paper extends the theoretical model of the linkage between ethnoracial division and the penal state in the United States I have elaborated elsewhere (Wacquant 2001) to cover the stupendous surge in the incarceration of post-colonial migrants in the European Union over the past two decades, that is, the era of triumphant neoliberalism.