Description: Makeshift Migrants and Law by Ratna Kapur This book unmasks the cultural and gender stereotypes that inform the legal regulation of the migrant subject. It critiques postcolonial perspectives on how belonging and non-belonging are determined by the sexual, cultural and familial norms on which law is based and on the colonial encounter FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description This book unmasks the cultural and gender stereotypes that inform the legal regulation of the migrant. It critiques the postcolonial perspective on how belonging and non-belonging are determined by the sexual, cultural, and familial norms on which law is based as well as the historical backdrop of the colonial encounter, which differentiated overtly between the legitimate and illegitimate subject. The complexities and layering of the migrants existence are seen, in the book, to be obscured by the apparatus of the law. The author elaborates on how law can both advance and impede the rights of the migrant subject and how legal interventions are constructed around frameworks rooted in the boundaries of difference, protection of the sovereignty of the nation-state, and the myth of the all-embracing liberal subject. This produces the Other and reinforces essentialised assumptions about gender and cultural difference. The author foregrounds the perspective of the subaltern migrant subject, exposing the deeper issues implicated in the debates over migration and the rights claims of migrants, primarily in the context of women and religious minorities in India. Author Biography Ratna Kapur is Director, Centre for Feminist Legal Research, New Delhi and Faculty, Geneva School of Diplomacy and International Relations, Geneva. Table of Contents Acknowledgements 1. Introduction 2. The Making of the Migrant 3. Victims, Whores, and Wives: Migrant Women and the Law 4. Faith and the Good Woman: The Construction of Female Sexual Subjectivities in Anti-trafficking Discourse 5. The Citizen and the Migrant Subject: Postcolonial Anxieties, Law, and the Politics of Exclusion/Inclusion 6. Alien-ating Justice: Muslims, the Gujarat Riots, and the Purge from Within 7. Conclusion: Insurrectional Subjects. Bibliography. About the Author. Index Details ISBN1138662755 Author Ratna Kapur Pages 248 Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd Year 2016 ISBN-10 1138662755 ISBN-13 9781138662759 Format Paperback Subtitle Gender, Belonging, and Postcolonial Anxieties Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Short Title MAKESHIFT MIGRANTS & LAW Language English Media Book Birth 1959 Affiliation Centre for Feminist Legal Research, India Illustrations black & white illustrations Publication Date 2016-01-21 DEWEY 342.083 UK Release Date 2016-01-21 AU Release Date 2016-01-21 NZ Release Date 2016-01-21 Imprint Routledge India Alternative 9780415596299 Audience Tertiary & Higher Education We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:134459787;
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ISBN-13: 9781138662759
Book Title: Makeshift Migrants and Law
Subject Area: International Law
Item Height: 216 mm
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Author: Ratna Kapur
Publication Name: Makeshift Migrants and Law: Gender, Belonging, and Postcolonial Anxieties
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Subject: Sociology, Transportation
Publication Year: 2016
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 295 g
Number of Pages: 248 Pages
