Lawless Zones, Rightless Subjects

Focusing on the hot-button issues of migration and sovereignty, this volume highlights the radical reconfiguration of territory, rights, and jurisdiction taking place at different levels and examines its implications for the future of democratic governance within and across borders. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Introduction. Lawless zones, rightless subjects Ayelet Shachar and Seyla Benhabib; Part I. Territoriality and Rights Protection: 1. Moving borders, refugee protection, and immigration policy Hiroshi Motomura; 2. Cease fires: temporality, bordering, and climate mobilities Elizabeth F. Cohen; 3. Safe third country: democratic responsibility and the ends of international human rights Paul Linden-Retek; 4. The role of proximity for states' obligations toward persons seeking protection Dana Schmalz; 5. The border within: Mobility, stereotypes, and the case for asylum seekers as migrants Frédéric Mégret; Part II. New Geographies of Borders: Territory, Land, and Water: 6. The border as accordion: linear borders, territoriality, and the problem of naturalness Matthew Longo; 7. The materiality of territory Nishin Nathwani; 8. Territoriality from the sea: political action in a world of vanishing exteriority Itamar Mann; 9. Forced migrants, human rights, and climate refugees Michael W. Doyle; Part III. Public Territories and Private Borders: tracing Transnational Power Relations: 10. From the colony to the border: the lawful lawlessness of racial violence Ayten Gündo¿du; 11. Private borders, hidden territories Anna Jurkevics; 12. Cycles of (im)mobility: floating populations in the case of Turkey Sibel Karadä; 13. UNHCR and biometrics: refugees' rights in a legal no-man's land? Marie-Eve Loiselle; Part IV. Democratizing Shifting Borders: 14. Three responses to shifting borders: sovereigntism, democratic cosmopolitanism, and the watershed model Paulina Ochoa Espejo; 15. Shifting borders, shifting political representation Svenja Ahlhaus; 16. Justice and democracy in migration: a demoi-cratic bridge towards just migration governance Eva-Maria Schäfferle; Bibliography.