Routledge Studies in Criminal Justice, Borders and Citizenship
About the Book Series
Globalizing forces have had a profound impact on the nature of contemporary criminal justice and law more generally. This is evident in the increasing salience of borders and mobility in the production of illegality and social exclusion. Immigration and its control are highly charged topics in contemporary crime policy and politics. In the past two decades such matters have become subjects of extensive scholarly analysis throughout the social sciences. Though criminology has been a relative latecomer to this body of work, it is now possible to speak of an emerging ‘criminology of mobility.
Routledge Studies in Criminal Justice, Borders and Citizenship showcases contemporary studies that connect criminological scholarship to migration studies and explores the intellectual resonances between the two. It provides an opportunity to reflect on the theoretical and methodological challenges posed by mass mobility and its control. By doing that, it aims to chart an intellectual space and establish a theoretical tradition within criminology to house scholars of immigration control, who have traditionally published either in general criminological or in anthropological, sociological, refugee studies, human rights and other publications.
Border Frictions: Gender, Generation and Technology on the Frontline
1st Edition
By Karine Côté-Boucher
June 13, 2022
How did Canadian border officers come to think of themselves as a "police of the border"? This book tells the story of the shift to law enforcement in Canadian border control. From the 1990s onward, it traces the transformation of a customs organization into a border-policing agency.Border ...
Re-thinking the Political Economy of Immigration Control: A Comparative Analysis
1st Edition
By Lea Sitkin
June 30, 2021
This book offers a systematic exploration of the changing politics around immigration and the impact of resultant policy regimes on immigrant communities. It does so across a uniquely wide range of policy areas: immigration admissions, citizenship, internal immigration controls, labour market ...
Border Policing and Security Technologies: Mobility and Proliferation of Borders in the Western Balkans
1st Edition
By Sanja Milivojevic
March 31, 2021
This book is a unique and original examination of borders and bordering practices in the Western Balkans prior to, during, and after the migrant "crisis" of the 2010s. Based on extensive, mixed-method, exploratory research in Serbia, Croatia, FYR Macedonia, and Kosovo, the book charts technological...
Criminal Justice Research in an Era of Mass Mobility
1st Edition
Edited
By Andriani Fili, Synnøve Jahnsen, Rebecca Powell
March 31, 2021
We live in an era of mass mobility where governments remain committed to closing borders, engaging with securitisation discourses and restrictive immigration policies, which in turn nurture xenophobia and racism. It is within this wider context of social and political unrest that the contributors ...
Women, Mobility and Incarceration: Love and Recasting of Self across the Bangladesh-India Border
1st Edition
By Rimple Mehta
March 31, 2021
This book explores how Bangladeshi women from poor and undereducated/semi-educated backgrounds who have crossed the Indo-Bangladesh border find themselves in prisons serving sentences under the Foreigners Act, 1946. Drawing on original fieldwork, this book explores these women’s understanding of ...
Nordic Nationalism and Penal Order: Walling the Welfare State
1st Edition
By Vanessa Barker
September 05, 2019
In late summer 2015, Sweden embarked on one of the largest self-described humanitarian efforts in its history, opening its borders to 163,000 asylum seekers fleeing the war in Syria. Six months later this massive effort was over. On January 4, 2016, Sweden closed its border with Denmark. This ...
Human Smuggling in the Eastern Mediterranean
1st Edition
By Theodore Baird
March 05, 2019
The organization of human smuggling from the Middle East and Africa through Turkey and the Eastern Mediterranean has become a contemporary political concern throughout Europe, receiving intense and polarised media attention. This timely book reformulates how we conceive of human smuggling, ...
Gendered Harm and Structural Violence in the British Asylum System
1st Edition
By Victoria Canning
February 04, 2019
Winner of the 2018 British Society of Criminology Book Prize Britain is often heralded as a country in which the rights and welfare of survivors of conflict and persecution are well embedded, and where the standard of living conditions for those seeking asylum is relatively high. Drawing on a ...
Sex Work, Immigration and Social Difference
1st Edition
By Julie Ham
February 06, 2018
Public discourses around migrant sex workers are often more confident about what migrant sex workers signify morally but are less clear about who the ‘migrant’ is. Based on interviews with immigrant, migrant and racialized sex workers in Vancouver, Canada and Melbourne, Australia, Sex Work, ...
Fragile Migration Rights: Freedom of movement in post-Soviet Russia
1st Edition
By Matthew Light
January 24, 2018
The Soviet Union comprehensively governed the mobility of its citizens by barring emigration and strictly regulating internal migration. In the aftermath of the Soviet collapse, the constitution and laws of the new Russian Federation appeared to herald a complete break with the repressiveness of ...
Human Smuggling and Border Crossings
1st Edition
By Gabriella Sanchez
October 10, 2016
Graphic narratives of tragedies involving the journeys of irregular migrants trying to reach destinations in the global north are common in the media and are blamed almost invariably on human smuggling facilitators, described as rapacious members of highly structured underground transnational ...
Asylum Seeking and the Global City
1st Edition
By Francesco Vecchio
April 27, 2016
Asylum seeking and the global city are two major contemporary subjects of analysis to emerge both in the literature and in public and official discourses on human rights, urban socioeconomic change and national security. Based on extensive, original ethnographic research, this book examines the ...