Ratna Kapur

Makeshift Migrants and Law

Gender, Belonging, and Postcolonial Anxieties

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book unmasks the cultural and gender stereotypes that inform the legal regulation of the migrant subject. It critiques postcolonial perspectives on how belonging and non-belonging are determined by the sexual, cultural and familial norms on which law is based and on the colonial encounter

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Januar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 136mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 296g
• ISBN-13: 9781138662759
• ISBN-10: 1138662755
• Artikelnr.: 44825716

Autorenporträt

Ratna Kapur is Director, Centre for Feminist Legal Research, New Delhi and Faculty, Geneva School of Diplomacy and International Relations, Geneva.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements 1. Introduction 2. The Making of the Migrant 3. Victims
Whores
and Wives: Migrant Women and the Law 4. Faith and the 'Good' Woman: The Construction of Female Sexual Subjectivities in Anti-trafficking Discourse 5. The Citizen and the Migrant Subject: Postcolonial Anxieties
Law
and the Politics of Exclusion/Inclusion 6. 'Alien'-ating Justice: Muslims
the Gujarat Riots
and the Purge from Within 7. Conclusion: Insurrectional Subjects. Bibliography. About the Author. Index