Affiliation:
1. School of Law, University of Warwick , Gibbet Hill Road, Coventry, CV4 7AL , United Kingdom
Abstract
Abstract
Liberal theory has long fetishized state law as a fortress against disorder, anarchy, and private violence. To prevent violence writ large, it advocated, the nation-state should be endowed with its monopoly, as the impartial and rational guardian of civilization and social peace. Yet, as critics suggest, the normative binary of law/violence and the legal purity of the state is empirically untenable and, as such, remains an ideological construct sustained and perpetuated through law and its fictions. In this paper, I revisit these debates to reflect on legal fictions in the context of migration policing. I draw on ethnographic research I conducted with immigration and police officers in the UK. Amid the growing economies of illegality that rely on migrant labour which these officers are in charge of suppressing, their everyday work reveals spaces of legal murkiness and ambiguity. The paper explores the paradoxes, dilemmas and contradictions that such legal ambiguity gives rise to and their implications for state sovereignty.
Funder
Leverhulme Trust
Economic and Social Research Council
University of Warwick
Publisher
Oxford University Press (OUP)
Subject
Law,Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous),Social Psychology,Pathology and Forensic Medicine
Reference76 articles.
1. ‘Introduction’,;Abraham,2005
2. ‘Illegality in Employment Contracts, Enforced Labour and Public Policy Considerations’,;Akhtar;European Review of Contract Law,,2021
3. ‘Enlisting the Public in the Policing of Immigration’,;Aliverti;British Journal of Criminology,2015
4. ‘Benevolent Policing? Vulnerability and the Moral Pains of Border Controls’,;Aliverti;The British Journal of Criminology,2020
5. ‘Patrolling the ‘thin blue line’ in a World in Motion: An Exploration of the Crime–Migration Nexus in UK Policing’,;Aliverti;Theoretical Criminology,2020
Cited by
2 articles.
订阅此论文施引文献
订阅此论文施引文献,注册后可以免费订阅5篇论文的施引文献,订阅后可以查看论文全部施引文献