Making Migration Law: The Foreigner, Sovereignty, and the Case of Australia (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781316625767)

The emergence of international human rights law and the end of the White Australia immigration policy were events of great historical moment. Yet, they were not harbingers of a new dawn in migration law. This book argues that this is because migration law in Australia is best understood as part of a longer jurisprudential tradition in which certain political-economic interests have shaped the relationship between the foreigner and the sovereign. Eve Lester explores how this relationship has been wrought by a political-economic desire to regulate race and labour; a desire that has produced the claim that there exists an absolute sovereign right to exclude or condition the entry and stay of foreigners. Lester calls this putative right a discourse of 'absolute sovereignty'. She argues that 'absolute sovereignty' talk continues to be a driver of migration lawmaking, shaping the foreigner-sovereign relation and making thinkable some of the world's harshest asylum policies.

Author: Eve Lester
ISBN-10: 1316625761
ISBN-13: 9781316625767
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 08/08/2019
Pages: 387
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.14lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.80d