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Law and the Stranger (The Amherst Series in Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought)

By Austin Sarat , Lawrence Douglas , Martha Umphrey

Book information

Year
2010
ISBN
0804771545, 9780804771542
LCC
K3274 .L39 2010
Open Library ID
OL23989168M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1218034 bytes)
Pages
264\262
Topic
Jurisprudence Law
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Law calls communities into being and constitutes the "we" it governs. This act of defining produces an outside as well as an inside, a border whose crossing is guarded, maintaining the identity, coherence, and integrity of the space and people within. Those wishing to enter must negotiate a complex terrain of defensive mechanisms, expectations, assumptions, and legal proscriptions. Essentially, law enforces the boundary between inside and outside in both physical and epistemological ways.Law and the Stranger explores the ways law identifies and responds to strangers within and across borders. It analyzes the ambiguous place strangers occupy in communities not their own and reflects on how dealing with strangers challenges the laws and communities that invite or parry them. As the book reveals, strangers are made through law, rather than born through accidents of geography.

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