Migrants Before the Law : Contested Migration Control in Europe, Hardcover by...

by Anna Wyss, Lisa Marie Borrelli, Tobias Eule, Annika Lindberg

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Migrants Before the Law : Contested Migration Control in Europe, Hardcover by Eule, Tobias G.; Borrelli, Lisa Marie; Lindberg, Annika; Wyss, Anna, ISBN 3319987488, ISBN-13 9783319987484, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US This book traces the practices of migration control and its contestation in the European migration regime in times of intense politicization. The collaboratively written work brings together the perspectives of state agents, NGOs, migrants with precarious legal status, and their support networks, collected through multi-sited fieldwork in eight European states: Austria, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Sweden and Switzerland. Th provides knowledge of how European migration law is implemented, used, and challenged by different actors, and of how it lends and constrains power over migrants’ journeys and prospects. An ethnography of law in action, th contributes to socio-legal scholarship on migration control at the margins of the state. “This book is a major achievement. A remarkable and insightful study that through close analysis of the practices of migration control in 8 European countries (Austria, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Sweden and Switzerland) provides powerful new insight into the power of the state at its margins and over those that are marginalised.” - Andrew Geddes, Director, Migration Policy Centre, European University Institute “ Migrants Before the Law provides a much-needed account of the dizzying legal labyrint

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing A&G
• Year: 2018
• Binding: Hardcover
• ISBN: 9783319987484
• Condition: Fine

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