Grasping Legal Time - Temporality and European Migration Law

This book explores the double-edged role of time in the regulation of migration from legal, philosophical and socio-cultural perspectives.

List of contents

Introduction: Grasping Legal Time; 1. The Virtues of Legal Time; 2. The Vices of Legal Time; 3. Jus Temporis or the Immigrant's Right to Human Time; Conclusion.

About the author

Martijn Stronks is an Assistant Professor at the Amsterdam Centre for Migration and Refugee Law of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He studied law and philosophy at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and the University of Cape Town, South Africa. His main research interests include migration and human rights law, legal philosophy, and time.

Summary

This book explores the sophisticated ways in which time is used in migration law to control and differentiate the presence of migrants within a certain territory. With legal, philosophical, and socio-cultural analysis of temporality and law, it is an innovative text for lawyers, social scientists and philosophers.

Foreword

This book explores the double-edged role of time in the regulation of migration from legal, philosophical and socio-cultural perspectives.

Product details

• Authors: Martijn Stronks, Martijn (Vrije Universiteit Stronks, Stronks Martijn
• Publisher: Cambridge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.01.2025
• EAN: 9781009484046
• ISBN: 978-1-009-48404-6
• Illustrations: Worked examples or Exercises
• Series: Cambridge Asylum and Migration Studies
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, LAW / International, LAW / Public, International Relations, International Law, International Organisations & Institutions, migration studies; international and European law