Introduction 1
The location of rights 2
Liberal rule and liberties 5
Chapter outline 8
1 Limits of liberal rule 12
Discourses on liberal rule 13
Practices of liberal rule 22
2 Borders of liberal rule 31
Locating borders 32
Borders of mobility 35
Legal borders 41
3 Liberties on the territory 49
The law on the waiting zone 50
Legal space of the waiting zone 53
Legal rights in the waiting zone 55
Policing, securitization and isolation 59
Effective spaces of the waiting zone 62
Legal borders on the territory 64
4 Liberties on the seas 69
From safety to security 70
Policing and securitization 71
Policing and borders 73
Policing and law 73
United States, the Caribbean and the high seas 76
Europe, the Mediterranean and foreign seas 78
The judiciary and the scope of rights 80
Penalizing humanitarian action 81
5 Liberties in third countries 86
Australia's offshore places 87
Law, space and excision 87
Offshore locations 91
Legal rights and legal exclusion 96
Leased lands and Guantanamo 99
Delegation 102
6 Conclusions 104
Notes 111
Bibliography 114
Index 140