Lawless Zones, Rightless Subjects: Migration, Asylum, and Shifting Borders

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Lawless Zones, Rightless Subjects: Migration, Asylum, and Shifting Borders

Edited by Seyla Benhabib · Ayelet Shachar
Cambridge University Press January 2025

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ISBN-13
9781009512848
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication
January 2025
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Paperback
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U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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The transnational movement of peoples is one of the burning issues of our times, giving rise to populist anger against migrants and refugees. Studying the radical reconfiguration of territory, rights, and jurisdiction currently taking place, this volume examines its implications for the future of democratic governance within and across borders. Throughout the world, states are employing increasingly punitive responses under cover of law to arrest mobility, evade rights, and detach borders from fixed territorial markers. The consequent formation of the 'shifting border' provides tremendous power and almost boundless discretion to states (and especially their public and private delegates and partners at multi-governance levels) to rely on ever harsher techniques of migration governance and border control in order to restrict movement and constract rights. These actions extract deadly costs from migrants, families on the move, and communities everywhere.

Table of Contents

Introduction. Lawless zones, rightless subjects Ayelet Shachar and Seyla Benhabib

Part I. Territoriality and Rights Protection:
1. Moving borders, refugee protection, and immigration policy Hiroshi Motomura
2. Cease fires: temporality, bordering, and climate mobilities Elizabeth F. Cohen
3. Safe third country: democratic responsibility and the ends of international human rights Paul Linden-Retek
4. The role of proximity for states' obligations toward persons seeking protection Dana Schmalz
5. The border within: Mobility, stereotypes, and the case for asylum seekers as migrants Frédéric Mégret

Part II. New Geographies of Borders: Territory, Land, and Water:
6. The border as accordion: linear borders, territoriality, and the problem of naturalness Matthew Longo
7. The materiality of territory Nishin Nathwani
8. Territoriality from the sea: political action in a world of vanishing exteriority Itamar Mann
9. Forced migrants, human rights, and climate refugees Michael W. Doyle

Part III. Public Territories and Private Borders: tracing Transnational Power Relations:
10. From the colony to the border: the lawful lawlessness of racial violence Ayten Gündoğdu
11. Private borders, hidden territories Anna Jurkevics
12. Cycles of (im)mobility: floating populations in the case of Turkey Sibel Karadağ
13. UNHCR and biometrics: refugees' rights in a legal no-man's land? Marie-Eve Loiselle

Part IV. Democratizing Shifting Borders:
14. Three responses to shifting borders: sovereigntism, democratic cosmopolitanism, and the watershed model Paulina Ochoa Espejo
15. Shifting borders, shifting political representation Svenja Ahlhaus
16. Justice and democracy in migration: a demoi-cratic bridge towards just migration governance Eva-Maria Schäfferle

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