Making People Illegal: What Globalization Means for Migration and Law (Law in Context)

✍ Scribed by Catherine Dauvergne

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 231
• Series: Law in Context
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book examines the relationship between illegal migration and globalization. Under the pressures of globalizing forces, migration law is transformed into the last bastion of sovereignty. This explains the worldwide crackdown on extra-legal migration and informs the shape this crackdown is taking. It also means that migration law reflects key facets of globalization and addresses the central debates of globalization theory. This book looks at various migration law settings, asserting that differing but related globalization effects are discernable at each location. The "core samples" interrogated in the book are drawn from refugee law, illegal labor migration, human trafficking, security issues in migration law, and citizenship law. Special attention is paid to the roles played by the European Union and the United States in setting the terms of global engagement. The book's conclusion considers what the rule of law contributes to transformed migration law.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 3
Title......Page 7
Copyright......Page 8
Contents......Page 9
Acknowledgments......Page 11
Publication acknowledgments......Page 13
CHAPTER ONE Introduction......Page 15
CHAPTER TWO On being illegal......Page 23
The globalization of illegal migration......Page 24
Meanings of illegality......Page 29
Countering illegality with the law......Page 33
Mapping globalization......Page 43
Conceptualizing law within globalization......Page 48
Migration law as a testing ground......Page 56
CHAPTER FOUR Making asylum illegal......Page 64
Threat to the Australian nation......Page 65
Resiling from refugee law......Page 68
Refugee law and the human rights story......Page 74
Illegal asylum and the rule of law......Page 80
CHAPTER FIVE Trafficking in hegemony......Page 83
Sketching victims for the human rights cause......Page 85
American leadership on the frontier......Page 89
Remedies: sovereignty, law, and refuge......Page 97
Smuggling, undrawing lines, and concluding......Page 103
CHAPTER SIX The less brave new world......Page 107
The importance and unimportance of September 11, 2001......Page 109
Bargaining and balancing......Page 117
Lessons of the new normal......Page 127
CHAPTER SEVEN Citizenship unhinged......Page 133
The citizenship law–migration law dichotomy......Page 135
The gender of naturalization......Page 138
Shifts in formal legal citizenship......Page 145
Citizenship and illegal migration......Page 152
CHAPTER EIGHT Myths and Giants: The influence of the European Union and the United States......Page 156
The fortress of freedom, security, and justice......Page 158
Border law: Lessons of the U.S.–Mexico frontier......Page 168
The shadow of the giants......Page 176
Mythologies of globalization......Page 180
Migrating sovereignty......Page 183
Globalizing the rule of law......Page 189
Law in global times......Page 199
STATUTES AND INTERNATIONAL LEGAL MATERIALS......Page 205
JURISPRUDENCE......Page 208
SECONDARY MATERIALS......Page 210
Index......Page 225