
Immigration, Emigration, and Migration
NOMOS LVII
Jack Knight(Editor)
New York University Press
1st Edition
Published on 17. January 2017
Book
Hardback
327 pages
978-1-4798-6095-1 (ISBN)
Description
Questions of immigration and border enforcement practices are particularly salient in contemporary public discourse, and examinations of policy and practice bring forth new philosophical quandaries. Why the common assumption that each country has the right to control its own borders? How are laws that restrict or regulate migration created and justified? Why has the criminalization of migration increased? How can migration be better considered through the point of view of the migrants themselves? What are the differences in international and national institutional migratory policy?
The volume explores questions of border control and enforcement, criminalization of borders, and how to address current debates and changes in regards to migration and immigration. The intersection of analysis and prescription provides both an assessment of current forms of thought or regulation and suggestion of alterations to address the flaws or failures of present approaches. The eight essays in this volume reflect a variety of considerations and explorations across interdisciplinary lines, and provide a new and thought-provoking discussion of policy, practice, and philosophy of migratory and border practices.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
Germany
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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Trade binding
Dimensions
Height: 22.2 cm
Width: 13.7 cm
Weight
554 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4798-6095-1 (9781479860951)
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01/2017
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Jack Knight is the Frederic Cleaveland Professor of Law and Political Science at Duke University. His primary areas of interest lie at the intersection of law and politics. His major research focuses on issues in modern social and political theory, law and legal theory, and the political economy of institutions. His publications include Institutions and Social Conflict, The Choices Justices Make (with Lee Epstein), and The Priority of Democracy (with James Johnson).