In the end, advocates and academics should retain critical distance from state categories if they are to avoid reifying these deeply entrenched narratives surrounding race and gender. In doing so, advocates failed to challenge the gendered and racialised stereotypes that distinguish good migrants from bad ones –victims from villains. While NGOs and advocates sought to challenge theidea that all, or even most, ‘foreign criminals’ deserve to be deported, they still tended to frame their arguments in terms of victims and villains. These images relied upon race for their intelligibility. The FNP ‘crisis’ incensed the media and politicians who framed the issue in terms of dangerous foreign men whose hypermasculinist violence presented a severe and existential threat to the British people.

In explaining the specific kinds of migrantness and criminality made to represent the FNP ‘crisis’, I argue that race and gender matter, and that they work through one another. OL19334588W Page_number_confidence 84.44 Pages 182 Partner Innodata Ppi 300 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20200723093957 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 245 Scandate 20200709071625 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780007317363 Tts_version 4.The UK’s Foreign National Prisoner (FNP) crisis’ of June 2006 provides a key moment tounpack the figure of the ‘foreign criminal’through.Through an analysis of media articles, Commons debates and NGO documents, I discuss theracialised and gendered stereotypes that were invoked in the construction of ‘foreign criminals’, as they were positioned within the victim-villain binary that characterises migration debates.

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