The emergence of international human rights law and the end of the White Australia immigration policy were events of great historical moment. Yet, they were not harbingers of a new dawn in migration law. This book argues that this is because migration law in Australia is best understood as part of a longer jurisprudential tradition in which certain political-economic interests have shaped the relationship between the foreigner and the sovereign. Eve Lester explores how this relationship has been wrought by a political-economic desire to regulate race and labour; a desire that has produced the claim that there exists an absolute sovereign right to exclude or condition the entry and stay of foreigners. Lester calls this putative right a discourse of 'absolute sovereignty'. She argues that 'absolute sovereignty' talk continues to be a driver of migration lawmaking, shaping the foreigner-sovereign relation and making thinkable some of the world's harshest asylum policies.
Produkteigenschaften
- Artikelnummer: 9781316625767
- Medium: Buch
- ISBN: 978-1-316-62576-7
- Verlag: Cambridge University Press
- Erscheinungstermin: 09.04.2019
- Sprache(n): Englisch
- Auflage: Erscheinungsjahr 2019
- Produktform: Kartoniert, Paperback
- Gewicht: 561 g
- Seiten: 387
- Format (B x H x T): 152 x 229 x 21 mm
- Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt
Themen
- Sozialwissenschaften
- Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit
- Spezielle Soziologie
- Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
- Rechtswissenschaften
- Öffentliches Recht
- Sicherheitsrecht
- Ausländerrecht, Asylrecht, Flüchtlingsrecht
