RT Book
T1 Unravelling unauthorized migrants’ legal consciousness processes
A1 Kox, Mieke 1983-
LA English
PP The Hague
PB Eleven
YR 2024
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1884494897
AB Nation-states turn themselves to ‘the law’ to limit the presence of migrants without a legal status on their territory. Yet, they encounter several limitations that hinder them to make these migrants (forcedly) leave the country. Moreover, these migrants see themselves confronted with undesirable living conditions because of the law. This raises questions on the functioning of the law for unauthorized migrants. Unravelling unauthorized migrants’ legal consciousness processes offers answers to the intriguing puzzle of how law matters to these migrants and how this is of concern for the law. Drawing on multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork among 105 (former) unauthorized migrants in the Netherlands, Surinam and Nigeria as well as participant observations in the Dutch immigration system, the study vividly portrays unauthorized migrants’ legal consciousness processes over time. By doing so, it gives these people a voice in the migration debate and sheds new light on the powerful and powerless functioning of the law in this domain. By combining insights from anthropology, border criminology and socio-legal studies, the book exposes the legal, moral and instrumental limitations of the current use of the law towards unauthorized migrants
NO Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-261)
CN JV6201
SN 9789047302094
SN 9047302095
K1 Noncitizens
K1 Noncitizens : Attitudes
K1 illegal immigration
K1 Netherlands : Emigration and immigration
K1 Niederlande : Auswanderung : Einwanderung : Migrationshintergrund : Gesinnung : Internationale Migration