The right to exclude a critical race approach to sovereignty, borders, and international law
In a world in which racism and xenophobia are endemic, what is the role of international law? To the extent international rules are thought to have any relevance at all, the typical approach characterizes international law as on the side of racial justice. Human rights instruments like the United Na...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Oxford
Oxford University Press
2023
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| Ausgabe: | First edition |
| Schlagworte: |
International law and human rights
> Emigration and immigration law
> Racism
> Xenophobia
> Ausländerrecht
> Colonialism & imperialism
> Immigration law
> International human rights law
> Internationales Öffentliches Recht: Menschenrechte
> Jurisprudence & philosophy of law
> Kolonialismus und Imperialismus
> LAW / Emigration & Immigration
> LAW / International
> LAW / Jurisprudence
> LAW / Legal History
> Legal history
> POL045000
> POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / Human Rights
> Rechtsgeschichte
> Rechtsmethodik, Rechtstheorie und Rechtsphilosophie
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| Zusammenfassung: | In a world in which racism and xenophobia are endemic, what is the role of international law? To the extent international rules are thought to have any relevance at all, the typical approach characterizes international law as on the side of racial justice. Human rights instruments like the United Nations' International Convention on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination are paradigmatic, offering the world international agreements in which governments are directedto avoid racist behavior and promote antiracist action. In The Right to Exclude, Justin Desautels-Stein goes against the grain and asks whether certain rules of international law might actually produce structures of racial hierarchy, rather than limiting them. The intellectual fulcrum for this production, Desautels-Stein argues, lies in the ideological structures of sovereignty and property, the right to exclude that is shared in those twinned precincts, and the border regimes that result. Applying critical race theory to contemporaryproblems of migration, nationalism, multiculturalism, decolonization, and self-determination, Desautels-Stein expounds a theory of "postracial xenophobia", a structure of racial ideology that justifies and legitimates a pragmatic account of racialized foreignness, a racial xenos |
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| Beschreibung: | x, 353 Seiten |
| ISBN: | 9780198862161 978-0-19-886216-1 |