Nishin Nathwani
Biographic Data
| ID | 6555331 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nishin Nathwani |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nishin |
| FAMILY NAME | Nathwani |
| SIGNATURE | NATHWANI N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rainbow Railroad , Toronto, ON M5V 3A8, Canada |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5324-1172 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Lawless Zones, Rightless Subjects
Responding to ever-increasing pressures of migration, states, supranational, and subnational actors deploy complex moves and maneuvers to reconfigure borders, rights, and territory, giving rise to a changing legal cartography of international relations and international law. The purpose of this volume is to study this new reconfiguration of rights, territoriality, and jurisdiction at the empirical and normative levels and to examine its implicati…
Extrajudicial border enforcement against LGBTIQ+ asylum seekers
Recent scholarship has highlighted how states differentially restrict the movement of persons who are divergently racialized, gendered, sexualized, abled, and aged. This paper explores the phenomenon of extrajudicial border enforcement—instances where airline officials act on behalf of states to prevent the cross-border movement of marginalized persons. Based on a qualitative analysis of fifty-two cases of failed travel of at-risk lesbian, gay, b…
The Purpose of Asylum
The institution of asylum faces a serious crisis in Europe. At the root of this problem lies the perception that refugee law and asylum practice obstruct the efficient enforcement of a restrictive immigration policy. It is also seen to weaken the deterrence effect of the main instruments (punishment, forcible expulsion) used to combat unwanted immigration. This crisis highlights the need to explain the following question: Why should asylum be gra…
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The Purpose of Asylum
The institution of asylum faces a serious crisis in Europe. At the root of this problem lies the perception that refugee law and asylum practice obstruct the efficient enforcement of a restrictive immigration policy. It is also seen to weaken the deterrence effect of the main instruments (punishment, forcible expulsion) used to combat unwanted immigration. This crisis highlights the need to explain the following question: Why should asylum be gra…
Extrajudicial border enforcement against LGBTIQ+ asylum seekers
Recent scholarship has highlighted how states differentially restrict the movement of persons who are divergently racialized, gendered, sexualized, abled, and aged. This paper explores the phenomenon of extrajudicial border enforcement—instances where airline officials act on behalf of states to prevent the cross-border movement of marginalized persons. Based on a qualitative analysis of fifty-two cases of failed travel of at-risk lesbian, gay, b…
Lawless Zones, Rightless Subjects
Responding to ever-increasing pressures of migration, states, supranational, and subnational actors deploy complex moves and maneuvers to reconfigure borders, rights, and territory, giving rise to a changing legal cartography of international relations and international law. The purpose of this volume is to study this new reconfiguration of rights, territoriality, and jurisdiction at the empirical and normative levels and to examine its implicati…
Criminology (2 works) · Enforcement (2 works) · European Criminal Justice and Data Protection (2 works) · Human rights (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Refugee (2 works) · Sociology (2 works)