Law and the Stranger
Hardback or Cased Book 264 pages Jul 06, 2010
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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.
- Author:
- Austin Sarat
- Publisher:
- Stanford Law Books
- Publication Date:
- Jul 06, 2010
- Number of pages:
- 264 pages
- Binding:
- Hardback or Cased Book
- ISBN-10:
- 0804771545
- ISBN-13:
- 9780804771542