1st Edition
Makeshift Migrants and Law Gender, Belonging, and Postcolonial Anxieties
By Ratna Kapur
Copyright 2010
248 Pages
by
Routledge India
248 Pages
by
Routledge India
248 Pages
by
Routledge India
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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... Read more
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
Biography
Ratna Kapur is Director, Centre for Feminist Legal Research, New Delhi and Faculty, Geneva School of Diplomacy and International Relations, Geneva.
