商品簡介
This discussion unmasks the cultural and gender stereotypes that inform the legal regulation of the migrant subject. Focusing on the female, subaltern migrant, it offers a critique from a post-colonial 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 overtly classified the legitimate and illegitimate subject.
The book seeks to explode the myth of the migrant as coerced into movement, and unpacks the complex material, historical, and normative factors that produce insiders and outsiders, those who count and those who do not. While it foregrounds the migrant within the context of South Asia, it raises issues that are of contemporary global concern.
作者簡介
Ratna Kapur is Director, Centre for Feminist Legal Research, New Delhi. She is also on the faculty of the Geneva School of Diplomacy and International Relations, Geneva, Switzerland.
She practised law for a number of years in New Delhi, and now teaches and publishes extensively on issues of international law, human rights, feminist legal theory, and postcolonial theory.
