In the aftermath of World War II, the countries of the world signed
on for a Convention giving rights and safeguards to refugees. Being
a refugee involved discussion of human rights and protection.
Sharon Pickering documents how this has changed. Refugees and
asylum seekers are dressed in the clothes of criminals, and
national sovereignty has become the focus of the response of the
Global North to forced migration. Pickering adopts a State Crime
framework, emerging out of a critique of law and order refugee
politics, to explain policy responses. The roles of the
administration, the justice system, and the media are analysed to
highlight the discourses of criminality. She shows how the
spectacle of the refugee as criminal allied to the rise of
transnational policing, has led to the opening up of
extra-territorial, extra-legal spaces, how contradictions have
emerged as to national "borders," and how the rule of law has been
debased.
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