Undocumented Immigrants in an Era of Arbitrary Law: The Flight and the Plight of People Deemed Illegal

ISBN-13: 9781138634992 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 220 str.

Robert F. Barsky

Opis

This book addresses the challenges confronting undocumented immigrants and those charged with regulating their actions. Focusing on the personal narratives of undocumented people, it pursues an interdisciplinary and language-based approach to the study of how undocumented immigrants experience border-crossing. Addressing the translation and interpretation of personal narratives in a fickle, shifting and often defiant legal context, Robert Barsky elicits the often arbitrary and ever-shifting combination of laws, regulations and rules that contribute to a sense amongst immigrants themselves that the legal context is absurd, untenable, unpredictable, changeable, and even illusory or 'fictional'.

Spis treści

Introduction: Advocating For Those Who Suffer  1. Arbitrariness, Discretion and Nonenforcement  2. Translating the Utterances of Undocumented Immigrants in a Hostile Discourse Marketplace  3. ‘First Encounters’ with Host Country Officials  4. Entering the System, from the Arrest to Formal Sentencing  5. Incarcerations, Public and Private  Conclusion: Deportation, and Return to the Host Country? Or Open Borders?

O autorze

Robert F. Barsky is a Professor at Vanderbilt University. He has published widely in areas relating to language theory, Convention refugee adjudication, and border studies, and he is the author of a trilogy of books about the milieus of Noam Chomsky and Zellig Harris.