Governing Irregular Migration
Bordering Culture, Labour, and Security in Spain
- Publisher
- UBC Press
- Initial publish date
- Jan 2018
- Subjects
- Emigration & Immigration, Emigration & Immigration
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780774836159
- Publish Date
- Jan 2018
- List Price
- $24.99
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Description
This thorough analysis of immigration governance in Spain explores the dynamics of inclusion and exclusion at play at one of Europe’s southern borders. Drawing on interviews with policymakers and from parliamentary debates, laws, and policy documents, David Moffette reveals the complicated legal obstacles facing migrants with precarious immigration status. He shows how issues of culture, labour, and security intersect to create a regime of migration governance that is at once progressive and repressive. This book contributes to debates in socio-legal, border, and citizenship studies.
About the author
David Moffette is Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminology, University of Ottawa. He studies various questions related to the intersections between criminal law and immigration law, the securitization of immigration, borders and bordering practices, and race and racism.