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Law in the margins : economies of illegality and contested sovereignties
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Aliverti, Ana J. (2022) Law in the margins : economies of illegality and contested sovereignties. The British Journal of Criminology . azac078. doi:10.1093/bjc/azac078 ISSN 0007-0955. [ 🗎 Public]. [ (🔓): Yes ]. (In Press)
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azac078
Abstract
Liberal theory has long fetishized state law as a fortress against disorder, anarchy, and private violence. To prevent violence writ large, it advocated, the nation-state should be endowed with its monopoly, as the impartial and rational guardian of civilization and social peace. Yet, as critics suggest, the normative binary of law/violence and the legal purity of the state is empirically untenable and, as such, remains an ideological construct sustained and perpetuated through law and its fictions. In this paper, I revisit these debates to reflect on legal fictions in the context of migration policing. I draw on ethnographic research I conducted with immigration and police officers in the UK. Amid the growing economies of illegality that rely on migrant labour which these officers are in charge of suppressing, their everyday work reveals spaces of legal murkiness and ambiguity. The paper explores the paradoxes, dilemmas and contradictions that such legal ambiguity gives rise to and their implications for state sovereignty.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | |||||||||
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare J Political Science > JV Colonies and colonization. Emigration and immigration. International migration |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Law | |||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Great Britain -- Emigration and immigration, Illegal immigration, Border security -- Great Britain, Border security -- Law and legislation -- Great Britain, Law enforcement -- Political aspects -- Great Britain, Immigrants -- Government policy -- Great Britain, Police -- Great Britain | |||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | The British Journal of Criminology | |||||||||
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press | |||||||||
| ISSN: | 0007-0955 | |||||||||
| Official Date: | 2022 | |||||||||
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| Article Number: | azac078 | |||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1093/bjc/azac078 | |||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | |||||||||
| Publication Status: | In Press | |||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | |||||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 9 September 2022 | |||||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 4 November 2022 | |||||||||
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