Making People Illegal: What Globalization Means for by Catherine Dauvergne

By Catherine Dauvergne

This booklet examines the connection among unlawful migration and globalization. below the pressures of globalizing forces, migration legislation is remodeled into the final bastion of sovereignty. This explains the global crackdown on extra-legal migration and informs the form this crackdown is taking. It additionally implies that migration legislation displays key points of globalization and addresses the vital debates of globalization concept. This e-book seems at a variety of migration legislations settings, saying that differing yet similar globalization results are discernable at each one position. The "core samples" interrogated within the publication are drawn from refugee legislation, unlawful exertions migration, human trafficking, safeguard concerns in migration legislations, and citizenship legislations. distinctive recognition is paid to the jobs performed by way of the ecu Union and the USA in surroundings the phrases of world engagement. The book's end considers what the guideline of legislations contributes to remodeled migration legislations.

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Jurisprudence for an Interconnected Globe (Aldershot: Ashgate Press, 2003) 43 for an overview of the new-old debate. 9 In their comprehensive volume tracking approaches to and effects of globalization, Held, McGrew, Goldblatt, and Perraton take a different approach to classifying the literature by identifying three schools of thought about globalization: skeptics, transformationalists, and hyperglobalizers. , supra note 7 at 2–8. 10 See Kenichi Ohmae, supra note 2 at 11. 11 See Robert B. Reich, supra note 2.

This conception also resonates with the pedigree of the emotive term nation: prosperous Western nation-states are closer to the ideal of nation than others are. Their desirability as destination for extralegal migrants functions as a measure of their status and standing as nations. While globalization may bring some characteristics of the nation under threat, it also allows the exclusion that is essential to the existence of nations to expand. National actions designed to assert traditional sovereignty also contribute to a globalizing of sovereignty in this new way.

46 Stephen Legomsky, “Employer Sanctions: Past and Future” in Peter Duignan and Lewis H. : Hoover Institution Press, 1998). 17 18 Making people illegal a map. Those excluded are outside The Law, regardless of which nation they enter or attempt to enter. The desperation of the illegal other appears in contrast to our prosperity as a nation. We “have” and they “have not”; entitlement to membership is ours to bestow. One of the shifts occurring at present is that as “illegal” emerges as a globally meaningful identity label, the characteristics of all of those nations against which this other is imagined also tend to merge.

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