Tournament: Harvard | Round: 2 | Opponent: Crossings Christian | Judge:
The American visa process is inherently hostile to the stranger-alien- it scrutinizes and humiliates applicants to ensure they are fit to live among us legitimizing broader biopolitical interventions
Rajan ’8 (Rajeswari Sunder ’Response’, Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, 5:2, 218 – 221)
Here the concept of the "threshold" or "limit" with which Agamben
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today, is not the least piquant of the developments of the present.
Walzer, Professor Social Science at Institute for Advanced Studies, ’83 (Michael, "Spheres of Justice: A Defense of Pluralism and Equality" p 56-57)
Consider, then, a country like Switzerland or Sweden or West Germany, a
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of their contracts, guest workers have no more rights than tourists have.
This construction of a homogeneous social space that must be defended legitimizes whole-scale elimination of populations and global warfare to maintain the sanctity of America
Hoffmann ’7 (Kasper, International Development Studies at Roskilde University, May, "Militarised Bodies and Spirits of Resistance", http://diggy.ruc.dk:8080/handle/1800/2766-http://diggy.ruc.dk:8080/handle/1800/2766)
In modern processes of government, the focus is on the fostering and promotion of
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Jews, but also Gypsies, homosexuals, Bolsheviks and other inassimilable elements.
Bulley ’6 (Dan-, Review of International Studies, "Negotiating ethics: Campbell, ontopology, and hospitality", Vol. 32)
So far, a definition of hospitality has been studiously avoided. This is because
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that ethics is commonly understood in the inside/outside logic of IR.