Undocumented Immigrants In An Era Of Arbitrary Law: The Flight And The Plight Of People Deemed 'Illegal'

This book addresses the challenges confronting undocumented immigrants and those charged with regulating their actions. Focusing on the personal narratives of undocumented people, it pursues an interdisciplinary and language-based approach to the study of how undocumented immigrants experience border-crossing. Addressing the translation and interpretation of personal narratives in a fickle, shifting and often defiant legal context, Robert Barsky elicits the often arbitrary and ever-shifting combination of laws, regulations and rules that contribute to a sense amongst immigrants themselves that the legal context is absurd, untenable, unpredictable, changeable, and even illusory or 'fictional'.

• | Author: Robert F. Barsky
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: Aug 18, 2015
• | Number of Pages: 220 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1138849480
• | ISBN-13: 9781138849488