Making migration law : the foreigner, sovereignty, and the case of Australia /
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| Author / Creator: | Lester, Eve, 1964- author. |
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| Imprint: | Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2018. |
| Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 373 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12599653 |
| Summary: | 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. |
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| Item Description: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 16 Mar 2018). |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 373 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). |
| ISBN: | 9781316779910 9781107173279 9781316625767 |