Undocumented Immigrants in an Era of Arbitrary Law The Flight and the Plight of People Deemed ''Illegal''

This book addresses the challenges confronting undocumented immigrants and those charged with regulating their actions. Focusing on the personal narratives of undocumented people, it pursues an interdisciplinary and language-based approach to the study of how undocumented immigrants experience border-crossing. Addressing the translation and interpretation of personal narratives in a fickle, shifting and often defiant legal context, Robert Barsky elicits the often arbitrary and ever-shifting combination of laws, regulations and rules that contribute to a sense amongst immigrants themselves that the legal context is absurd, untenable, unpredictable, changeable, and even illusory or 'fictional'.

Info autore

Robert F. Barsky is a Professor at Vanderbilt University. He has published widely in areas relating to language theory, Convention refugee adjudication, and border studies, and he is the author of a trilogy of books about the milieus of Noam Chomsky and Zellig Harris.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Robert Barsky, Robert (Vanderbilt University) Barsky
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Copertina rigida
• Data pubblicazione: 18.08.2015
• Categoria: Narrativa > Romanzi > Epistole, diari; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Diritto > Diritto internazionale, diritto degli stranieri
• EAN: 9781138849488
• ISBN: 978-1-138-84948-8
• Numero di pagine: 220
• Categorie: Ethnic Studies, Sociology, LAW / General, LAW / Civil Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, LAW / Emigration & Immigration, International Law, Migration, immigration & emigration, Migration, immigration and emigration, Social Law, Human Geography, Asylum Law, Social law and Medical law, arbitrary immigration law impact