Makeshift Migrants and Law : Gender, Belonging, and Postcolonial Anxieties


Ratna. Kapur
Bok Engelsk 2012 · Electronic books.
Annen tittel
Utgitt
Hoboken : : Taylor and Francis, , 2012.
Omfang
1 online resource (246 p.)
Opplysninger
Description based upon print version of record.. - Front Cover; Makeshift Migrants and Law; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. The Making of the Migrant; 3. Victims, Whores, and Wives: Migrant Women and the Law; 4. Sexual Restraints: 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. The Fear Factor: Muslims, the Gujarat Riots, and the Purge from Within; 7. Conclusion: Insurrectional Subjects; Bibliography; About the Author; Index. - 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 migrant's 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 impe
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Dewey
ISBN
9780415596299

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