Right to Exclude - A Critical Race Approach to Sovereignty, Borders, International Law

This book will provide an accessible introduction to the important role of race and racism in international law, explain the racialization of today's border controls, and question the conventional history that celebrates the success of antidiscrimination in the international human rights regime.

List of contents

• Introduction


• Part I Liberalism and the Racial Subject


• 1: Imperium and Dominium


• 2: The Racial Xenos


• 3: Nations of Daylight, Children of the Night


• Part II International Law's Modern Racial Ideology


• 4: Modern Racial Ideology as Naturalizing Juridical Science


• 5: The Promise of International Migration Law


• 6: Decolonization and the Ambivalence of Self-Determination


• 7: On the Ideological Threshold


• Part III Postracial Xenophobia


• 8: Multiculturalism, Nationalism, Pragmatism


• 9: On the Inevitability of Racial Borders

About the author

Justin Desautels-Stein is Professor of Law at the University of Colorado and is the Founding Director of Colorado University's Center for Critical Thought. His work concentrates on the history of legal thought, with special emphases on the United States and International Relations. His most recent books include The Jurisprudence of Style: A Structuralist History of American Pragmatism and Liberal Legal Thought, and a co-edited volume with Christopher Tomlins, Searching for Contemporary Legal Thought. Professor Desautels-Stein holds graduate degrees from Harvard Law School, The Fletcher School at Tufts University, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Summary

This book will provide an accessible introduction to the important role of race and racism in international law, explain the racialization of today's border controls, and question the conventional history that celebrates the success of antidiscrimination in the international human rights regime.

Product details

• Authors: Justin Desautels-Stein, Justin (Professor of Law Desautels-Stein
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.12.2022
• EAN: 9780198862161
• ISBN: 978-0-19-886216-1
• No. of pages: 372
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, LAW / Legal History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, LAW / International, LAW / Public, LAW / Emigration & Immigration, Colonialism & imperialism, immigration law, Legal History, Colonialism and imperialism, Public international law: human rights, International human rights law, Jurisprudence & Philosophy Of Law, Methods, theory and philosophy of law