Making migration law : the foreigner, sovereignty, and the case of Australia / Eve Lester.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lester, Eve, 1964- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emigration and immigration law--Australia.

Emigration and immigration law.

Australia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 373 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2018.

System Details:

text file

PDF

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.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 16 Mar 2018).

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Print version:

ISBN:

9781316779910

Access Restriction:

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