The Criminalization of Migration

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Chapter Five - The Criminalization of Migration

A Regional Transnational Legal Order or the Rise of a Meta-TLO?

from Part II - Transnational Legal Ordering and Transnational Crimes

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2020

Vanessa Barker

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Gregory Shaffer and

Ely Aaronson

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Gregory Shaffer: Affiliation:
University of California, Irvine
Ely Aaronson: Affiliation:
University of Haifa, Israel

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This chapter examines the criminalization of migration through the lens of transnational legal orders (TLOs). By doing so, it seeks to explain dramatic episodes such as the Diciotti refugee incident in Italy, but also provide socio-legal analysis for far-reaching practices such as immigration detention, removal, and refusal of entry, all of which depend on the development of a formalizing legal order and specific regulation such as the EU Returns Directive that transcends national boundaries. It argues that affluent democratic societies of the Global North are in the middle of a major transformation of governance while transnational legal orders are at the center of it.

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transnational legal ordering criminalization of migration human rights border criminology migration European Union refugee crisis EU Returns Directive social solidarity

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Information: Transnational Legal Ordering of Criminal Justice , pp. 154 - 175

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