Robert Barsky

Undocumented Immigrants in an Era of Arbitrary Law

The Flight and the Plight of People Deemed 'Illegal'

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Produktbeschreibung

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'.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. August 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 160mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9781138849488
• ISBN-10: 1138849480
• Artikelnr.: 42965631

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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?