The Crimmigrant Other: Migration and Penal Power

by Katja Franko

Book Overview

Western societies are immersed in debates about immigration and illegality. This book examines these processes and outlines how the figure of the "crimmigrant other" has emerged not only as a central object of media and political discourse, but also as a distinct penal subject connecting migration and the logic of criminalization and insecurity. Illegality defines not only a quality of certain acts, but becomes an existential condition, which shapes...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 113854597X
• ISBN13: 9781138545977
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 0.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.0" x 7.7"