Law and the stranger / edited by Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas, and Martha Merrill Umphrey.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sarat, Austin.

Douglas, Lawrence.

Umphrey, Martha Merrill.

Series:

Amherst series in law, jurisprudence, and social thought.

The amherst series in law, jurisprudence, and social thought

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Noncitizens.

Emigration and immigration law--Philosophy.

Emigration and immigration law.

Law--Philosophy.

Law.

Sociological jurisprudence.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (262 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Law calls communities into being and constitutes the "we" it governs. This act of defining produces an outside as well as an inside, a border whose crossing is guarded, maintaining the identity, coherence, and integrity of the space and people within. Those wishing to enter must negotiate a complex terrain of defensive mechanisms, expectations, assumptions, and legal proscriptions. Essentially, law enforces the boundary between inside and outside in both physical and epistemological ways. Law and the Stranger explores the ways law identifies and responds to strangers within and across borders. It analyzes the ambiguous place strangers occupy in communities not their own and reflects on how dealing with strangers challenges the laws and communities that invite or parry them. As the book reveals, strangers are made through law, rather than born through accidents of geography.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Acknowledgments

Contents

Contributors

Negotiating (with) Strangers

Necessary Strangers: Law’s Hospitality in the Age of Transnational Migrancy

The Strangers in Ourselves: The Rights of Suspect Citizens in the Age of Terrorism

Strangers Within: The Barghouti and the Bishara Criminal Trials

Conflict of Laws and the Legal Negotiation of Difference

Who’s the Stranger? Jews, Women, and Bastards in Daniel Deronda

Of Stranger Spaces

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780804775151

080477515X

OCLC:

669514060