Spatialising state practices through transnational repression

Abstract This article theorises the repressive security practices of authoritarian states in context transnationalism and globalisation. While emerging research on transnational repression has identified a range extraterritorial exceptional adopted by states, it not fully studied implications such space statecraft. Using data from Central Asia Political Exile Database project (CAPE) interviews conducted with exiled Tajik opposition groups based Russia Europe, we theorise spatial connections between territorial using concept assemblages. We further outline how these escalate three-stage model, which exiles go notice, are detained then rendered or assassinated. Such an approach sheds light inherent links normalisation creation distinct forms geographical state power that is embedded non-national spaces manifested through spatially organised actors, networks, technologies within