Law and the Stranger

264 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Law calls communities into being and constitutes the "we" it governs. This act of defining produces an outside as well as an inside, a border whose crossing is guarded, maintaining the identity, coherence, and integrity of the space and people within. Those wishing to enter must negotiate a complex terrain of defensive mechanisms, expectations, assumptions, and legal proscriptions. Essentially, law enforces the boundary between inside and outside in both physical and epistemological ways. Law and the Stranger explores the ways law identifies and responds to strangers within and across borders. It analyzes the ambiguous place strangers occupy in communities not their own and reflects on how dealing with strangers challenges the laws and communities that invite or parry them. As the book reveals, strangers are made through law, rather than born through accidents of geography.

• ISBN: 9780804771542
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 06.07.2010
• Größe: 231 x 155 mm
• Verlag: Stanford University Press
• Herausgegeben von: Lawrence Douglas, Austin Sarat, Martha Merrill Umphrey