RT Article
T1 States of exception, human rights, and social harm: Towards a border zemiology
JF Theoretical criminology
VO 25
IS 2
SP 228
OP 248
A1 Soliman, Francesca
LA English
YR 2021
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1756112509
AB Crimmigration, that is, the merging of criminal and migration law, is receiving increasing attention within criminology. However, while crimmigration widens our understanding of coercion and punishment, it is a reductive lens through which to make sense of migration control. This article comprises three parts: first, I critique the concept of crimmigration, its conceptual foundations, and its methodological limitations. Second, I explore how migration control practice transcends both the state’s territory and sovereignty, using the example of the European Union’s policy of non-assistance, and argue that this policy evidences the need to move beyond crime-based categories in favour of a social harm-based approach. Lastly, I propose a zemiological methodology for the study of migration control, based on a critical realist view of society and building on Nancy Fraser’s idea of social justice. The resulting framework provides a coherent and empirically useful tool for the study of border-related harms.
K1 Zemiology
K1 State Crime
K1 deaths at sea
K1 Crimmigration
DO 10.1177/1362480619890069