States of exception, human rights, and social harm

Towards a border zemiology

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12586554
AutoresFrancesca Soliman (0000-0003-0784-9771, University of Edinburgh, School of Law, UK, autor de correspondencia)
Año2019
Volumen25
Número2
Páginas228-248
Fecha de publicación2019-12-09
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaTheoretical Criminology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1362-4806 • E-ISSN: 1461-7439
EditorialSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1362480619890069
OpenAlexW2992738382
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas14
Referencias citadas54

Crimmigration, that is, the merging of criminal and migration law, is receiving increasing attention within criminology. However, while crimmigration widens our understanding of coercion and punishment, it is a reductive lens through which to make sense of migration control. This article comprises three parts: first, I critique the concept of crimmigration, its conceptual foundations, and its methodological limitations. Second, I explore how migration control practice transcends both the state’s territory and sovereignty, using the example of the European Union’s policy of non-assistance, and argue that this policy evidences the need to move beyond crime-based categories in favour of a social harm-based approach. Lastly, I propose a zemiological methodology for the study of migration control, based on a critical realist view of society and building on Nancy Fraser’s idea of social justice. The resulting framework provides a coherent and empirically useful tool for the study of border-related harms

Coercion (linguistics · Criminology · Economics · European union · Harm · Human rights · Law and economics · Political science · Politics · Punishment (psychology · Social control · Sociology · Sovereignty · State (computer science · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Psychology · Social Psychology