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Lawless zones, rightless subjects : migration, asylum, and shifting borders /

Lawless zones, rightless subjects : migration, asylum, and shifting borders / edited by Seyla Benhabib and Ayelet Shachar. - 1 online resource (x, 362 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 10 Jan 2025).

"Lawless zones, rightless subjects" / Ayelet Shachar and Seyla Benhabib -- Moving borders, refugee protection, and immigration policy / Hiroshi Motomura -- Cease fires : temporality, bordering, and climate mobilities / Elizabeth Cohen -- "Safe third country" : democratic responsibility and the ends of international human rights / Paul Linden Retek -- The role of proximity for states' obligations toward persons seeking protection / Dana Schmalz -- The border within : mobility, stereotypes, and the case for asylum seekers as migrants / Frédéric Mégret -- The border as accordion : linear borders, territoriality and the problem of naturalness / Matthew Longo -- The materiality of territory / Nishin Nathwani -- Territoriality from the sea : political action in a world of vanishing exteriority / Itamar Mann -- "Forced migrants," human rights, and "climate refugees" / Michael W. Doyle -- From the colony to the border : the lawful lawlessness of racial violence / Ayten Gündoğdu -- Private borders, hidden territories / Anna Jurkevics -- Cycles of (im)mobility : floating populations in the case of Turkey / Sibel Karadağ -- UNHCR and biometrics : refugees' rights in a legal no-man's land? / Marie-Eve Loiselle -- Three responses to shifting borders : sovereigntism, democratic cosmopolitanism, and the watershed model / Paulina Ochoa Espejo -- Shifting borders, shifting political representation / Svenja Ahlhaus -- Justice and democracy in migration : a demoi-cratic bridge towards just migration governance / Eva-Maria Schäfferle.

Open Access.

Responding to ever-increasing pressures of migration, states, supranational, and subnational actors deploy complex moves and maneuvers to reconfigure borders, rights, and territory, giving rise to a changing legal cartography of international relations and international law. The purpose of this volume is to study this new reconfiguration of rights, territoriality, and jurisdiction at the empirical and normative levels and to examine its implications for the future of democratic governance within and across borders. Written by a diverse and accomplished group of scholars, the chapters in this volume employ legal, historical, philosophical, critical, discursive, and postcolonial perspectives to explore how the territoriality of the modern states - ostensibly, the most stable and unquestionable element undergirding the current international system - has been rewritten and dramatically reimagined. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

9781009512824 (ebook)


Emigration and immigration--Government policy.
Immigrants--Violence against.
Refugees--Violence against.
Borderlands--Social aspects.
Asylum, Right of.
Jurisdiction, Territorial.

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