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Approaching new migration through Elias' 'established' and 'outsiders' lens [PDF]

, 2015
When considering social positions and features that become distinguishing for migrants’ positioning, scholars quite often rely on empirical descriptions, based on discrete and supposedly clearly definable factors. Whereas elements such as legal position,
Petintseva, Olga
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“Everything I Have Seen There, That I Know …”: Witnessing the Colombian armed conflict through refugees’ narratives of implication

PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review, Volume 47, Issue 1, Page 49-62, May 2024.
Abstract In this article, I engage with the predicament of witnessing as a condition for persecution and displacement. I argue that observing violence during war is a critical form of implication. In the context of the Colombian armed conflict, members of armed groups often threaten the lives of those who observe their acts of violence, producing a ...
Alana Ackerman
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The Expansion of “Particularly Serious Crimes” in Refugee Law: Mirroring the Severity Revolution [PDF]

, 2015
Refugees are not protected from deportation if they have been convicted of a “particularly serious crime” (“PSC”) which renders them a danger to the community. This raises questions about the meaning of “particularly serious” and “danger to the community.
Holper, Mary
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Punished and banished: Non‐citizen women's experiences in a Danish prison

The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, Volume 63, Issue 1, Page 43-61, March 2024.
Abstract The Nordics have employed discourses of gender equality and women's rights and a welfare‐oriented approach to punishment as integral parts of inclusive welfare states and their ‘goodness’. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork with non‐citizen women at Vestre Prison in Denmark, this article suggests that the will to punish and banish prevails over
Dorina Damsa
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Reforming Scottish Criminal Procedure: In Search of Process Values

Bergen Journal of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, 2017
Recent proposals to reform Scottish criminal procedure are motivated by considerations of efficiency and accurate fact-finding, and there is little attempt to offer a normative account.
Pamela R. Ferguson
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The Hostile Environment and Crimmigration: Blurring the lines between Civil and Criminal Law [PDF]

, 2020
Jen Hendry
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Trump’s ‘Immployment’ Law Agenda: Intensifying Employment-Based Enforcement and Un-authorizing the Authorized [PDF]

, 2019
This article considers President Trump’s immigration efforts through an immployment law lens. Immployment is a conceptual frame that reminds us to consider (1) immigration policy’s impacts on employers and the employment-based rights of workers, and (2 ...
Gleeson, Shannon, Griffith, Kati L
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A raceless legal psychology in a system marked by race

Journal of Social Issues, Volume 80, Issue 1, Page 80-99, March 2024.
Abstract Despite the fact that evidence of racial inequality in the U.S. criminal legal system has become overwhelming, the field of legal psychology has largely ignored issues of race and systemic racism. Although legal psychology focuses on a system that has disproportionately affected certain racial groups, and much of the field questions the ...
Rubí M. Gonzales, Victoria C. Plaut
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International Migration as Absolute Natural Law: An Inquiry into International Migration from the Perspective of Legal Philosophy [PDF]

, 2016
This paper investigates to what extent international migration law is coherent with the concept of migration as a natural human right. Based on the assumption that migration is an inherently human behavior, beneficial to humankind, and therefore natural ...
Ernst, Maximilian
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Crimmigration in Gangland: Race, Crime, and Removal During the Prohibition Era [PDF]

, 2018
In 1926, local law enforcement and federal immigration authorities in Chicago pursued a deportation drive ostensibly directed at gang members. However, the operation largely took the form of indiscriminate raids on immigrant neighborhoods of the city ...
Heeren, Geoffrey
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