The crimmigrant other : migration and penal power / Katja Franko

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Franko, Katja.

Series:

Key ideas in criminology.

Key Ideas in Criminology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.

Emigration and immigration.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (251 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Milton : Routledge, 2019.

Summary:

Western societies areimmersed in debates about immigration and illegality. This book examines these processes and outlines how the figure of the "crimmigrant other" has emerged not only as a central object of media and political discourse, but also as a distinct penal subject connecting migration and the logic of criminalization and insecurity. Illegality defines not only a quality of certain acts, but becomes an existential condition, which shapes the daily lives of large groups within the society. Drawing on rich empirical material from national and international contexts, Katja Franko outlines the social production of the crimmigrant other as a multi-layered phenomenon that is deeply rooted in the intricate connections between law, scientific knowledge, bureaucratic practices, politics and popular discourse.

Contents:

Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; The crimmigrant other; Punishment and global society: crimmigration control and bordered penality; The divided continent: penal power in contemporary Europe; From old to new poor laws; Methods and structure of the book; Notes; 1. (De)constructing the crimmigrant other; The crimmigrant body; Illegality; Deportability; The spectacle; Knowledge; Conclusion; Notes; 2. Bordered penality and crimmigration control

Bordered penality: the power to punish and the power to banishNotes; 3. "Hard-on-the-outside, soft-on-the-inside": An inclusive society with an exclusionary edge; Building a deportation machine: "a snowball which keeps on rolling"; Focusing on the "usual suspects"; Penal power between East and West; Beyond exceptionalism; Conclusion; Notes; 4. Policing Europe's humanitarian borderlands; Building a belt of protection: penal power in the postcolony; Global hierarchies of citizenship: from deviant states to deviant citizens; The rise of Frontex; Fighting illegality: the evil smuggler

Homines sacri and the power to let dieWorking in humanitarian borderlands: novel assemblages of care and control; The moral discomfort at the border; Conclusion: towards a moral economy of border control; Notes; 5. Justice and the moral boundaries of the nation; The power to make distinctions; From normal to abnormal justice; The morality of nationalism; The difficult child; Conclusion: carrying the burden of history; Notes; Conclusion: The power of a metanarrative; Note; References; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-351-00142-6

1-351-00144-2

1-351-00143-4

9781351001441

OCLC:

1130028261