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Makeshift migrants and law : gender, belonging, and postcolonial anxieties / / Ratna Kapur



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Autore: Kapur Ratna <1959-, > Visualizza persona
Titolo: Makeshift migrants and law : gender, belonging, and postcolonial anxieties / / Ratna Kapur Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New Delhi [India] : , : Routledge, , 2010
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (246 p.)
Disciplina: 342.083
Soggetto topico: Women immigrants - Legal status, laws, etc - India
Sex role - India
Internal migrants - India
Sex and law - India
Marginality, Social - India
Feminism - India
Sociological jurisprudence - India
Postcolonialism - India
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-230) and index.
Nota di contenuto: Front Cover; Makeshift Migrants and Law; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. The Making of the Migrant; 3. Victims, Whores, and Wives: Migrant Women and the Law; 4. Sexual Restraints: 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. The Fear Factor: Muslims, the Gujarat Riots, and the Purge from Within; 7. Conclusion: Insurrectional Subjects; Bibliography; About the Author; Index
Sommario/riassunto: This book unmasks the cultural and gender stereotypes that inform the legal regulation of the migrant. It critiques the postcolonial perspective on how belonging and non-belonging are determined by the sexual, cultural, and familial norms on which law is based as well as the historical backdrop of the colonial encounter, which differentiated overtly between the legitimate and illegitimate subject. The complexities and layering of the migrant's existence are seen, in the book, to be obscured by the apparatus of the law. The author elaborates on how law can both advance and impe
Titolo autorizzato: Makeshift migrants and law  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-136-70407-8
0-203-81400-2
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910790174903321
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